| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $400: The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century a horse |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $800: The Sumatran type of this predator is still around, but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more a tiger |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1200: In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments mussels |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1600: The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country's South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper's cats New Zealand |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $2000: This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller first described it; within 30 years, it was extinct Steller's sea cow |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | NATURE $1200: Ecdysis is another name for this process by which certain animals, such as snakes, shed their skin molting |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $200: This organization is the first to tell us that "animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment..." PETA |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $800: Clarissa Pinkola Estes told "Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" in "Women Who Run with" these wild animals the wolves |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $200: Stronger than dogs but hard to train, these animals took time off from Santa to pull sleds of mail in Alaska in the early 1900s reindeer |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $400: Biothrax protects against this disease that's transmitted to humans from farm animals anthrax |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT LYRICS $1600: In very different musical styles, The Animals, ELO & Sia implored, "Don't" do this Bring Me Down |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $1200: "Heat Waves" was a 2022 No. 1 hit for this British band Glass Animals |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $1200: Ozzy is a big fan of The Animals' cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", originally recorded by this "High Priestess of Soul" Nina Simone |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ancient geoglyphs of animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago the Nazca Lines |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $1000: In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds a bat |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a place where skins & hides of animals are treated to make leather a tannery |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $200: The Inagua wilderness of the Bahamas holds some 50,000 of these long-legged scarlet avians, the national bird flamingos |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $400: Denmark has a national this, the small tortoiseshell; with a 2-inch wingspan, it starts visiting flowers in early spring a butterfly |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $600: This big mammal is the national animal of Bangladesh, & please be specific a Bengal tiger |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $800: Canada's national horse is the Canadian horse; think a little harder to name this, a national symbol since 1975 a beaver |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $1000: It's the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia & Ecuador a (Andean) condor |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $600: "Me and You" tells the story of a family of these animals who go for a walk and is narrated by the littlest one bears |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $900: At the age of 9 Truth was separated from her family when she was sold along with a flock of these animals for $100 sheep |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $1200: A food often paired with "circuses" & to propagate animals breed & bread |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BIOLOGY $800: This class of animals whose name indicates 2 habitats is extra menaced by climate change as warming of either home means trouble an amphibian |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $200: The distinctive shoebill is also known as the whale-headed one of these baby deliverers stork |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $400: The bulls of these African animals can weigh more than 6 tons elephants |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $600: A nide is a brood of these birds, perhaps the ring-necked ones a pheasant |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $800: The Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals rat & pig |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANIMALS $1000: Russian circuses have often featured these animals, a national symbol, trained in the art of juggling with their feet! bears |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | ALONG FOR THE RIDE $1200: Until 2020, trainers at SeaWorld theme parks rode the backs of these animals during shows; PETA was glad they stopped a dolphin |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $200: Symbolic animals in the KJV include the dragon & this single-horned animal mentioned in Numbers 23:22 a unicorn |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: 8-letter adjective describing the science of animals
(20 points) zoologic |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | MYTHING IN ACTION $1000: In Norse mythology's great final battle, Fenrir, a giant one of these animals, is destined to swallow Odin a wolf |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $600: A. Whitney Brown:
"I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants" a vegetarian |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $200: Don't be afraid--this animal is a pollo a chicken |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $400: This animal, gatto, got your lingua? a cat |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $600: After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these a whale |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $800: Tell Leon il cavallo, this animal, has arrived a horse |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $1000: Farfalle are these creatures, but please don't eat them butterflies |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: Exodus 23:4 says if you find one of these large animals of your enemy that's gone astray, you have to return it an ox (an ass) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $400: In 2022, an environmental data firm used satellites to study how much methane comes from the belches of these farm animals cows |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | SWORDS $2000: The national flag of Sri Lanka depicts one of these animals holding a sword a lion |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Polynesia is the parrot who teaches this title physician how to talk to the animals Dr. Dolittle |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $400: In addition to her successful children's books about animals, this author was a committed conservationist (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | TAKING STOCK $400: The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals bear & bull |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | STATE FLAGS $400: Wyoming's flag, adopted in 1917, bears the silhouette of one of these animals, just back from the brink of extinction the American bison (a buffalo) |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SCIENCE $800: Negatively portrayed in "The Lion King", the spotted type of these African animals are actually valuable apex predators hyenas |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $400: Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education Beanie Babies |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | ETYMOLOGY $2000: Animals' ears are called these; the same-named parts of the heart get their name due to a resemblance to them auricles |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | THE NATURAL ORDER $200: These animals including the 6-banded South American variety seen here, make up the order Cingulata armadillo |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $1200: Seen here is a bit of a 3,500-mile fence across Australia's outback to protect sheep & other animals from this type of dog dingo |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: In Dodie Smith's tale, Pongo & Missis are the parents of 15 puppies, but the 17 of them becomes this title number by the end 101 (Dalmatians) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $400: Rudyard Kipling's Hathi, one of these animals, helps Mowgli by trampling a village of evildoers an elephant |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $1000: Spumador is Prince Arthur's trusty horse in this 1590s allegorical poem by Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $400: This extremely early in the alphabet African mammal is the only living member of the order Tubulidentata, "tube teeth" an aardvark |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $800: A recent study shows this large horned mammal tolerates parasitic oxpeckers because the birds hiss to warn it of predators a rhinoceros |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | HEAVEN ON EARTH $800: Given its name in the reign of Emperor Jiajing the Temple of Heaven in this capital once had stables for sacrificial animals Beijing |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $1200: Ah do declayuh, the Tennessee this goat has a skeletal muscle disorder called myotonia congenita, so fright isn't always a cause the fainting goat |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $1600: The name "star-nosed" this mammal sounds lovely; describing that nose as 22 fleshy pink tentacles in a star-like pattern... less a mole |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $2000: This carnivore with retractable claws is seen here not being as terrifying to lemurs as it was in animated form in "Madagascar" a fossa |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $400: It's also called a lightning bug a firefly |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $400: On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow a tortoise |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $800: This alternate name for a wolverine sounds like it could eat everything in sight & if it had its way, it just might the glutton |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $1200: Every year in the Yukon, 200,000 of these deer embark on the longest land mammal migration on Earth, sometimes up to 1,300 miles a caribou |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $1600: Also called a rorqual, a type of whale takes this name from its prominent dorsal appendage a finback |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $2000: This obscure 7-letter ape is found in the tropical rainforests of Malaysia & Indonesia a siamang |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $400: Mahatma Gandhi said, "The central fact of Hinduism is" protection of these animals cows |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | NONFICTION $400: Natalie Portman began this 5-letter lifestyle after reading "Eating Animals" & narrated the documentary version of the book vegan |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | "R" NATURE $400: The northeast corner of Alaska is home to the Arctic National Wildlife this, a place where animals are left undisturbed Refuge |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SEPARATION $800: The phrase "separate the sheep from" these other bleating animals is derived from Jesus' words in Matthew 25:32 goats |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | DEITY ADD A LETTER $800: Add a letter to the start of the Greek god of war & you get these female animals mares (from Ares) |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $400: Meaning sly or crafty, vulpine also means resembling one of these animals a fox |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1200: In 2022 this Glass Animals song spent a record 91st week on the aptly named Hot 100 "Heat Waves" |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | GET STUFFED! $400: Kristen Arnett's "Mostly Dead Things" is about a young woman who takes over one of these shops that stuffs dead animals taxidermist |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $400: Eating a white snake gives a young man this magical ability also associated with Dr. Dolittle talking to the animals |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are often paired as terms for the plants & animals of a particular region flora & fauna |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $400: Ectothermic means this, a term describing animals like snakes & fish & some murderers cold-blooded |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $400: Hannibal brought 37 of these large animals over the Alps to help in his attack on Rome elephants |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW $600: Him: "Austin Powers--he's the snake to my mongoose. Or the mongoose to my snake. Either way, it's bad. I don't know animals" Dr. Evil |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $1000: "The Carnival of the Animals", not publicly performed in full in his lifetime Saint-Saëns |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LIFE SNAPSHOTS $800: This bacterium transmitted from animals to humans:
Identified in 1876, feared as a bioweapon today anthrax |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $4,000 (Daily Double): 40 feet long & weighing 11 tons or more, this largest living fish has 2 animals in its name a whale shark |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $200: Sly or otherwise:
renard a fox |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $400: In your garden:
papillon a butterfly |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $600: Down on the farm:
mouton a sheep |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $800: Look out! Serpent à sonnettes a rattlesnake |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $1000: In a seafood restaurant:
homard lobster |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $400: The name antbear is sometimes used for the giant anteater & for this anteater of Africa the aardvark |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $800: This flightless bird of New Zealand is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak a kiwi |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $1200: Delphinapterus leucas is the scientific name of the marine mammal that also goes by this name from Russian a beluga whale |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $1600: The exotic pet trade is responsible for the Burmese type of this constrictor becoming an invasive species in the Everglades a (Burmese) python |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $2000: The alpaca's wild ancestor, this smallest member of the camel family is featured on Peru's coat of arms the vicuna |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $200: In the last line of the book, Dorothy says, "and here is" this pup, "too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!" Toto |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $400: A hyena, zebra, orangutan & tiger do not walk into a bar, but are instead on a lifeboat with a teenaged boy in this novel Life of Pi |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $600: "The Tale of" him is subtitled "Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, & a Spool of Thread" Despereaux |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $800: Mole says this "Wind in the Willows" guy has been in the hospital 3 times after car crashes; maybe amphibians shouldn't drive (Mr.) Toad |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $1000: Hazel, Fiver & Blackberry are exceptional rabbits in this 1972 Richard Adams tale Watership Down |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $2,200 (Daily Double): Tired of having this guy talk to the animals, Hugh Lofting sent him to the moon in 1928 but fan demand had him "return" in 1933 (Doctor) Dolittle |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | MOLECULES $800: Bears have died from eating too much of this sweet stuff; it contains theobromine, an alkaloid that's toxic to animals chocolate |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Thousands of years old, large geoglyphs representing plants & animals can be seen 15 miles northwest of this Peruvian city Nazca |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | LEARNED LEAGUES $1600: Contestants in LearnedLeague, a web-based trivia game, are called these South American animals llamas |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $200: In the winter, some animals enter this dormant state in which body temperature lowers & breathing & heart rate slow down hibernation |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $200: "The Story of Ferdinand" tells of one of these animals who loves to sit quietly & smell the flowers a bull |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $400: The cecum is part of the large intestine; animals use it to digest this kind of food, so in koalas, it's 3 times body length plants (vegetation) |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $400: Animals don't get much more spineless or organ-less or muscle-less than these critters of the phylum Porifera a sponge |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $800: His interest in the variation of animals between islands was first aroused not by finches but by the Galapagos mockingbird Darwin |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II $600: The Queen loved animals from big (racehorses) to small (these short-legged dogs including Willow & Holly) Corgis |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | FARMING $800: Since 2002 the European Union has said you can't feed swill, waste food that includes meat, to these animals pigs |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: New Zealand not only has a lot of these animals, but it also has wild plants that look like them sheep |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SCIENCE PROJECTS $1200: T is for tagging in the TOPP project to track individual animals across the vast ocean, including leatherback these turtles |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | "B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | EXPENSIVE FOODS $400: From animals reared & fed according to strict guidelines, the Wagyu variety of this meat can set you back $75 for a 4-ounce serving beef |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1600: Aslan gives animals the ability to talk in this book in which Narnia is created The Magician's Nephew |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $200: Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic fish |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $400: Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one a pig |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $600: You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it frogs |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $800: New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year draw a buggy |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ANIMALS & THE LAW $1000: This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon Tennessee |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | MARINE BIOLOGY $800: A new theory says that as cetaceans evolved from land animals, the nostril moved to the top of the skull & became this orifice the blowhole |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $200: "The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family a mongoose |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE EARLY 1800s $600: Marking a humane first, the RSPCA, the Royal this, was founded in London in 1824 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $600: Gosh, I didn't realize that half of these farm animals are raised in China hogs (from gosh) |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | FROM FARM TO TABLE $1000: It can be a low cupboard with shelves or a coop for animals, usually rabbits a hutch |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BALLPARK FUN $400: In an unexpected crossover, the green Phanatic supporting this team since 1978 has a kids' book with a "Galapagos Gang" of animals the (Philadelphia) Phillies |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $400: African these have big ears shaped like the continent of Africa; Asian ones have smaller, rounder ears an elephant |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $800: The biggest of the big cats are these hybrids known by a portmanteau name ligers |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $1200: The biggest horse breed, the Shire, has been known to reach more than 21 of these horsey units high hands |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $1600: The green species of this snake can reach 30 feet & 550 pounds an anaconda |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $2000: In 2021 scientists identified a new species of this based on a 16-foot female that had been washed ashore whale |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $200: These animals "Lose Their Jobs as Milk Prices Drop" cows |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Polynesia is the parrot who teaches this title character how to talk to the animals Doctor Dolittle |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES $200: The nomadic herding of these animals was long the basis for the economy of the Sami of Scandinavia reindeer |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $200: In 2022 the Smithsonian's Zoo celebrated 50 years of its breeding & conservation work for these animals imported from China pandas |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021
"Sometimes, all I think about is you /
Late nights in the middle of June /
Heat waves been fakin' me out /
Heat waves been fakin' me out..." Glass Animals |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $800: A 1613 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicts animals preparing for entry into this conveyance Noah's Ark |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $400: It ain't Christmas Eve without a certain 8 of these animals providing their power reindeer |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD $600: This group of animals includes squid as well as shellfish mollusks |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | STATELY OVERLAPS $1200: A trip to see animals in Africa that includes a side visit to Tucson safarizona |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | TO 5 DECIBEL PLACES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cover your ears in Belize's' Cockscomb Basin; 14 troops of these animals released there in the early 1990s are thriving howler monkeys |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $400: A shrewdness of these, family Hominidae, chimps included apes |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $800: A coalition of these super-speedy spotted cats, Acinonyx jubatus cheetahs |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $1200: Seen here, a business of these--genus Mustela ferrets |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $2000: A cauldron of these, order Chiroptera bats |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $2,400 (Daily Double): A herd or even better an obstinacy of this ox-like wading mammal, Bubalus bubalis, which can hit 2,600 pounds each a water buffalo |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE $400: Mixing animals: a wolf whistle is one type of this unwanted outburst a catcall |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $800: This word refers to the taming & purposeful breeding of animals by humans husbandry (domestication) |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | SCIENCE $2000: With a name from Greek for "hedgehog" & "skin", this phylum of marine animals includes starfish & sea urchins echinoderms |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $200: The name of this bewhiskered water dweller can also mean a person who uses a fake profile on social media a catfish |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $400: Seen here, this hybrid dog breed that dates back at least 50 years is a family favorite a cockapoo |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $600: The spitting type of this can spray its venom to a distance of 6 1/2 feet a cobra |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $800: Found in South America & seen here, it's the largest rodent a capybara |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $400: In 1960 Jane Goodall saw that the animal she'd dubbed David Greybeard, this type of primate, made & used tools a chimpanzee |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $800: In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest elephants |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $1200: The western lowland gorilla with this repetitive name, known for using sign language, died at age 46 in 2018 Koko |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $1600: Many British govt. offices have cats called "Chief" this rodent-ridder; Palmerston worked in the foreign office 2016-2020 mouser |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ANIMALS OF NOTE $2000: A German Shepherd named Trakr found the last survivor in the Manhattan area dubbed this after 9/ 11 Ground Zero |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: In the 1750s this Swedish naturalist introduced the idea of binomial nomenclature for plants & animals Linnaeus |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $400: 58 million years ago, a thankfully extinct relative of this constrictor could reach 2,500 pounds & 40 feet in length boa |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $800: This species of deer crossed into North America about 12,000 years ago using the Bering land bridge elk |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $1200: Related to sharks, this cartilaginous fish has more than 500 species, including the blue-spotted ribbontail a ray |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $1600: As a source of food & as a pack animal, this bovine has long been essential to the people of the Tibetan Plateau a yak |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $2000: Native to the southern U.S., the "alligator" this can grow 10' long, making it one of the largest freshwater fish a gar |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $400: A group of newborn animals, or to scatter trash about litter |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This feral character raised by jungle animals originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" Mowgli |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CREATURE COMFORTS $800: Hippos & hogs are among the many animals who do this, roll in mud or liquid to soothe themselves wallow (wallowing) |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This vast Canadian lake attracts anglers but you're competing for the fish with the animals the lake is named for Great Bear Lake |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $200: A Bengal a tiger |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $400: A Capuchin monkey |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $600: A Merino a sheep |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $800: A Norway (also known as a brown) rat |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS $1000: A krait a snake |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): First appearing in the Cambrian Period, these are the 3-lobed fossils of what were marine animals trilobites |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | SCIENCE $1200: In the classification of animals, this division comes between kingdom & class phylum |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $400: The most massive living things, these "giant" redwood relatives can weigh 10 times as much as the largest blue whale sequoias |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $800: The lady's slipper & the dancing lady are species of these beautiful flowers that grow wild all over the world, not just in hothouses orchids |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $1,500 (Daily Double): Fittingly, these plants seen here belong to the genus Equisetum horsetails |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $1600: These "hairy cattle" of high Asian elevation will eat snow to get water yaks |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $2000: Native to South America & Southeast Asia, these big mammals are relatives of the rhino a tapir |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | PHILOSOPHY $800: Rousseau argued that man is happier & morally better not in society but in a "state of" this, like wild plants & animals are nature |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Ferdinand, who likes to sit & smell the flowers a bull |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Based on a TV show here & abroad:
Peppa a pig |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: Stellaluna, who becomes separated from her mother a bat |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" a trumpeter swan |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: Inspiring a recent movie, "The One and Only Ivan" a gorilla |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | MAMMALS $800: The heaviest arboreal animals, these Asian apes can reach 285 pounds an orangutan |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $400: 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants Ferns |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $800: All animals possess this protein that keeps skin firm & is used as a dietary supplement & cosmetic lip injection collagen |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $1200: The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi mycology |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2000: Plants, animals, fungi & protists are the 4 kingdoms of these organisms, from Greek for "good" & "kernel" eukaryotes |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PLANTS & ANIMALS & FUNGI, OH MY! $2,600 (Daily Double): To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants a rust |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $400: These sticky-tongued insect consumers include proper ones like the giant & animals loosely called that, like Australia's numbat an anteater |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PRONOUNCE IT THE WAY WE WANT $200: The third person singular of to do becomes this group of animals does |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $800: Strange for a sea god, but Neptune is credited in Roman mythology with creating these land animals used for transport horses |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | FESTIVALS $200: The San Fermin Festival held in Pamplona each July is best known for this daily event involving animals the running of the bulls |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | "A" IN SCIENCE $800: The name of this class of animals means "double life" amphibian |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: Among other things, these chemical substances secreted by certain animals are used to mark territory & to attract mates pheromones |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $1000: A few years after the worst of mad cow, a 2001 epidemic of this disease led to the culling of millions of animals hoof-and-mouth disease (foot-and-mouth disease) |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | CELLO $800: An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens The Carnival of the Animals |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $200: Some birds wield twigs & sticks to accomplish tasks, making them among the handful of animals known to use these tools |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WE DID START THE FIRE $400: Plains Indians regularly set prairie fires to spur the growth of fresh grass that enticed herds of these animals buffalo |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $800: He divided the contents of his first thesaurus into 6 classes, just as his hero Linnaeus had done with animals Roget |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SCIENCE $2000: It's the common term for animals of the order Lagomorpha rabbits |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MISSING POISONS UNIT $1000: Also called woolsorters' disease, ____ is caused by bacteria in farm animals & in humans exposed to them anthrax |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1600: An auspex read omens from watching the movements of these animals from which the word auspex partly derives birds |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $800: "No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal" Animal Farm |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $2000: "I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel" War of the Worlds |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $400: The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet a whale |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $800: The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest a sloth |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $1600: The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it's looking around for here (the) sparrow (hawk) |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $2000: Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that's able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer lynx |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $4,000 (Daily Double): When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis play dead |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $400: The last known tarpan, Equus ferus ferus, a wild Russian type of this, died in 1909 a horse |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $800: Poaching due to its horn led to the extinction of the West African black this by 2011 the black rhino |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1200: With feathers once favored in women's hats, the Carolina variety of this bird was widespread in the eastern U.S. until around 1920 the Carolina parakeet |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $1200: If picking huckleberries in Montana, be safe--it's estimated that in summer they make up half the diet of these animals grizzly bears |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $1600: The Tecopa pupfish native to this California desert became extinct due to human development in the area the Mojave |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | EXTINCT ANIMALS $2000: Seen here is a fossil of one of these prehistoric fish lizards Ichthyosaurus |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | AT THE BEACH $400: Much of the white sand on Hawaii's beaches comes from parrotfish, which excrete these indigestible reef animals as sand coral |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $1600: Animals in the region include camels, a main mode of transport, & these 2 farm animals known there as khiraf & ma'iz sheep & goats |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $400: Originally used as an advertisement, "Chat Noir' in the iconic poster translates to this "Black Cat" |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $800: On a subway car in 2020, Banksy depicted images of these "r"odents with masks & hand sanitizer rats |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $1200: A painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows a favorite mistress of Ludovico Sforza with this short-tailed weasel ermine |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $2000: In this French artist's primitive painting of "The Sleeping Gypsy", a lion lurks nearby Rousseau |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | ANIMALS IN ART $4,000 (Daily Double): A highlight at the Musee d'Orsay is "Ours Blanc", a sculpture of this predator of the north polar bear |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,900 (Daily Double): This 7-letter adjective describes animals like elephants & gorillas that are mostly active during the day diurnal |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | LITERARY GIRL, INTERRUPTED $400: Heidi, at home in the mountains: "I want to go about like the light-footed..." these animals goats |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $200: Generally batting leadoff alphabetically, this "earth pig" has a foot-long tongue an aardvark |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $400: Wisconsin's state mammal, this weasel family member stores up body fat in summer & fall for long winter sleeps a badger |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $600: The Indian gray is a type of this mammal that has no problem going after cobras a mongoose |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $800: Sure, this Aussie mammal lays eggs like a bird, has a bill like a bird & dives under-water for 40 seconds, but flying? Nope! a platypus |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $1000: The adorable pygmy this monkey lives up to its name; it can be less than a foot long & weight just 10 ounces marmoset |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $800: A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves bats |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $800: It's the art of growing & trimming trees & shrubs into different shapes, often animals topiary |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE! $600: Animals that eat from the sea floor, like lobsters, are known as this hyphenated term, also an amoral opportunist a bottom-feeder |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $400: Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs kangaroo rats |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $800: This fearsome predator gets the first part of its name from the stripes on its sides a tiger shark |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This largest pinniped gets its name from its size & its trunk-like snout an elephant seal |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FASHIONABLY $1000: This typically red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas is said to be named for a herd of animals buffalo plaid |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $1600: Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name a mule deer |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $2000: There's a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines lionfish |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | BARNS $800: In some barns, the ground floor is for animals & the top floor is named for this action where grain is separated from husks threshing |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $200: Barry Gordon provided the voice of Donatello in nearly 200 episodes of this "reptilian" cartoon, dude Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $400: Harry Shearer was in the 1957 pilot of this sitcom as an Eddie Haskell-like boy along with Casey Adams in the role of Ward Cleaver Leave It to Beaver |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $600: Nev & Kamie help people figure out if their online loves are real on this MTV show Catfish |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $800: From 2000 until 2003 John Ritter was the voice of this colorful canine on PBS Clifford the Big Red Dog |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | TV TITLE ANIMALS $1000: Episodes of this Adult Swim stop-motion show include "Junk in the Trunk", "Lust for Puppets" & "Toy Meets Girl" Robot Chicken |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $200: The name of this small rodent of the tundra also means a person who joins a mass movement without thinking a lemming |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $400: You can find this wild cat, also called a puma, from Canada to Argentina panther |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $600: In 2020, a Florida zoo saw the birth of an endangererd slender-horned this; we hope the little guy is as graceful as his mom, Clover a gazelle |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $800: In Europe it's a weasel-like mammal; in North America, it's another name for a skunk a polecat |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $1000: This kangaroo cousin only grows to about 2 1/2 feet high a wallaby |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: On its website, the ASPCA invites you to take a pledge & stand against this, as in its initials cruelty to animals |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | CHAPTERS IN NONFICTION BOOKS $1600: "Elsa Meets Other Wild Animals" Born Free |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $200: Benjamin Bunny marries Flopsy, the sister of this title rabbit from a Beatrix Potter tale Peter Rabbit |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $400: In "Charlotte's Web" he's the pig whose life is spared thanks to Charlotte Wilbur |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $600: In books by Kathryn Lasky, the guardians of Ga'Hoole are a band of these birds that do noble deeds owls |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $800: This "Fantastic" character from a 1970 tale is the bane of poultry farmers Boggis & Bunce Fantastic Mr. Fox |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1000: In a 1939 T.S. Eliot poem, this cat "has lived many lives in succession" Old Deuteronomy |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $200: Coat patterns like the one seen here from this animal can be as unique as fingerprints a giraffe |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1680 Spaniards chased off by a revolt left these animals the Indians called "sacred dogs", changing native life forever horses |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $400: Not quite as ferocious as in legend, this South American river dweller has a name from Tupi for "tooth fish" a piranha |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | DEALING WITH THE PAINT $400: Franz Marc saw divine simplicity in animals and gave his paintings simple titles like "Blue Horse", "White Bull", & this one Yellow Cow |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $600: Fish fear the paws of these big brown bears grizzly bears |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $800: Honeybees use their mandibles to make their honeycomb cells, each of which ends up in this shape a hexagon |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ANIMALS $1000: From Greek words for "joint" & "foot", this phylum including insects & spiders contains the vast majority of animals arthropods |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $200: A protein called draculin in the saliva of these animals prevents blood from clotting as they feed vampire bats |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | BAY WATCH $400: Marine iguanas are among the weird animals you can see at Academy Bay in these islands off South America the Galapagos |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $400: The sea wasp, a box type of this sea creature, can have tentacles 10 feet long jellyfish |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $600: An example of this imitative process is when nontoxic butterflies evade predators by resembling toxic varieties mimicry |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $800: If you see a cotton-ball-colored flash moving at 40 miles per hour, you may have scared this deer named for an appendage white tail |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | ANIMALS $1000: A digging carnivore, the ratel is also known by this sweet name a honey badger |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | ____ & ____ $600: This highly unlikely kind of story pairs 2 animals, one feathered & one horned cock & bull |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $400: A house mouse weighs about an ounce; comparatively, a black one of these weighs about 10 ounces a rat (in comparatively) |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $800: Everyone from Manitoba to Milwaukee knows the "great" this bird is now extinct the auk (in Milwaukee) |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $1600: About a half-million years ago, this predator ranged across North America as well as Africa lion (in million) |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A set of bejeweled ceramic sheep may include these 2 animals, a female & a male a ewe & a ram (in bejeweled & ceramic) |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $10,000 (Daily Double): After sighting one of these horned animals in Africa, we busted out a magnum of champagne gnu (in magnum) |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | MAMMALS $200: Muskrats & hamsters are both members of this order of animals rodents |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | ANIMALS IN GERMAN $200: This animal is ein schaf; an expression about an innocent exterior is "wolf im schafspelz" a sheep |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | ANIMALS IN GERMAN $400: This 3-letter critter is das schwein a pig |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | ANIMALS IN GERMAN $600: This large amphibious mammal is nilpferd a hippo |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | ANIMALS IN GERMAN $800: Kavallerie is a German word for a group of these horses |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | ANIMALS IN GERMAN $1000: It's ein löwe; it has eine mähne a lion |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | JUST "US" MYTHICAL FOLKS $3,800 (Daily Double): Epimetheus gave the animals gifts like speed, strength & razor-sharp claws, leaving this brother with not much to give humans Prometheus |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $200: Leonardo DiCaprio has a bad encounter with one of these animals in "The Revenant" but does make it to the end of the movie a (grizzly) bear |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | CLASSICAL MUSIC TITLES $2000: Wanting to be taken seriously, Camille Saint-Saens wouldn't let all of this "zoological fantasy" be published in his lifetime Carnival of the Animals |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | "HAND"Y PHRASES $1200: This phrase meaning you've got complete control of someone also describes the activity of some petting zoo animals eating out your hand |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | A CATEGORY FOR FREE $200: This 2-word term is used to describe animals like poultry that have been raised in natural conditions free-range |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $1000: Prey animals usually avoid predators, but at night these big African antelopes actually follow cheetahs to keep them in sight wildebeests |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | FARMING U.S.A. $600: A farrow-to-finish farmer raises these animals all the way from birth to their market weight of about 285 pounds a pig |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1600: The end of this novel hints at cannibalism aboard a lifeboat whose occupants were people, not a boy & zoo animals the Life of Pi |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | THE GREAT LAKES $200: Animals of the Great Lakes region include moose, beaver, lynx & this semiaquatic mammal the otter |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | NONPROFITS $200: This group founded by Ingrid Newkirk & Alex Pacheco helped get the auto industry to stop using animals in crash tests PETA |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING! $800: A Kickstarter success was the card game called "Exploding" these cute little animals; laser pointers can defuse them kittens |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $1200: Claude the crab & Peace the Bear are 2 of these collectible stuffed animals from the 1990s Beanie Babies |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | HYMNS $600: A hymn that begins, "All creatures of our God and King" was based on a work by this patron saint of animals & ecology St. Francis of Assisi |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | KEN JENNINGS--MARINE BIOLOGIST $400: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The giant larvacean, which looks like a tadpole surrounded by a balloon of mucus, helps battle climate change; disproportionate to its small size, the gelatinous animals, with their protein & cellulose snot palaces, have helped the ocean remove this planet-warming gas from the atmosphere carbon dioxide |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | BONES $400: In humans, this bone is the thigh; in other animals, it's the hind leg the femur |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $200: Those look like snake heads, but they are really the wing tips of the atlas this four-letter insect moth |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $400: In Canada & elsewhere, this fowl is often called a "honker" a goose |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $600: This animal of the weasel family, Neovison vison, has rich, dark fur once popular for coats mink |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $800: This South American river predator is fearsome, thanks to its sharp teeth, seen here a piranha |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $1000: If hornets' nests seem paper-like, it's because they are made of saliva & fibers of this wood |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | OK, BOOMERANG $200: Nonreturning boomerangs have been used by these first people of Australia for centuries to hunt, dig & skin animals the Aborigines |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $200: In 2015 this guardian of the galaxy got very animated on TV Rocket Raccoon |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $400: Aka Po, this martial arts master from animated film came to TV with the subtitle "Legends of Awesomeness" the Kung Fu Panda |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $600: This Insult Comic Dog, to guys waiting in line for a "Star Wars" pic: "How do you explain this to your imaginary girlfriend?" Triumph |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $800: Cute & cuddly, boys! "The Penguins of" this place waddled on to Nickelodeon Madagascar |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $1000: On "The Cleveland Show", Tim realized "I'm a" this. "I can kill you, maul you ...& I won't even go to jail... 'cause I'm a" this a bear |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | NEW TECHNOLOGY $1200: Using hydrogels, scientists achieved their goal of creating rudimentary versions of the charged organs in these marine animals (electric) eels |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | IT COMES FROM ANIMALS $200: These 4-letter soft feathers are used to stuff pillows down |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | IT COMES FROM ANIMALS $400: Used in lotions, lanolin generally comes from the body grease of these shearable creatures sheep |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | IT COMES FROM ANIMALS $600: Seth Boyden never got a patent for the process to manufacture the "patent" type of this leather |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | IT COMES FROM ANIMALS $800: This alliterative type of bristle used in brushes comes from a wild pig relative boar bristle |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | IT COMES FROM ANIMALS $1000: The red pigment carmine comes from cochineal, this type of animal insects |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $400: The pronghorn, also called the American or pronghorned one of these, can cover about one mile per minute an antelope |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $800: In the 1950s Idaho relocated these amphibious rodents by dropping them (with parachutes) out of airplanes beavers |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Those aren't racing stripes; a mutation in the king type of this African cat blends the spots around its spine to look like stripes a cheetah |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $1600: When these camel relatives give birth, it's been colloquially called "unpacking" alpacas |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ANIMALS $2000: This late gorilla once broke a sink & used sign language to blame someone else Koko |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | THE NATURAL WORLD $600: From the Latin for "pouch", it's any member of a group of various non-placental animals marsupials |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | STUDY GROUPS $400: Hippologists--these animals horses |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $800: It opened in 1899 with 843 animals; today, it has over 6,000 the Bronx Zoo |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | SNOPES SAYS NOPE $400: A U.S. tourist in Saudi Arabia was not arrested for refusing to sell his wife for 45 of these animals camels |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $400: Sick of this character who talks to animals, Hugh Lofting tried to end the series with him "in the Moon"; didn't work Doctor Dolittle |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | "DEE" DEE, DEE-DEE-DEE $400: The Sami of northern Scandinavia have trained these animals to pull sleighs, just in time for Christmas reindeer |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $400: The animals of a given region, & a Finnish-style steam bath sauna & fauna |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $400: A wide variety of animals live in the Rocky Mountains, including this type of wild sheep a bighorn sheep |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FROM THE LATIN $1200: Some animals are described as this, from the Latin for "of the night" nocturnal |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $200: John Grogan's "Marley & Me" is subtitled "Life and Love with the World's Worst" this Dog |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $400: Aslan represents one of the 3 title items in this first Chronicle of Narnia "The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe" |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $600: Sue Monk Kidd examined their "Secret Life" Bees |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $800: Book 4 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series is titled "So Long, and Thanks for All" these Fish |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $1000: Political tension surrounds 2 Turkish children in Ece Temelkuran's "The Time of Mute" these birds Swans |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | NOTABLE ITALIANS $800: He's the patron saint of animals & of Italy Saint Francis |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $400: This word can describe a sheep with a thick fleecy coat, or an extinct mammoth also noted for its coat wooly |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $800: If your dog sits, stays or heels on command, he's considered this 8-letter highly desirable adjective obedient |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $1200: From the Latin word for "tree", this term is used for certain monkeys who spend most of their time in trees arboreal |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $1600: This word describes birds that travel great distances during certain seasons of the year migratory |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $2000: Aggressive cats may also be this, extra protective of their home turf or personal space territorial |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RECENT EVENTS $200: In 2018 the skies got tougher for emotional support animals, like Dexter, this kind of bird rejected by United Airlines a peacock |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | ISLAND NATIONS $1200: Animals unique to Madagascar include lemurs, tenrecs, and certain species of these reptiles chameleons |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | NATURE $400: Protecting some species of animals during hot, dry periods, estivation is the summer equivalent of this "winter sleep" hibernation |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $600: "Breaking & entering, porridge theft; charge of cruelty to animals probably won't stick" Goldilocks |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $1000: Dr. Dolittle learns how to talk to the animals from a parrot with this name, like a region of Pacific islands Polynesia |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In 2019 India's Supreme Court ruled that a barrier for these huge animals be demolished, as they had the "first right" in forests elephants |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | JACKAL $1000: Jackals in Africa can transmit this disease AKA lyssa to dogs & other animals rabies |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $400: Animals of the Horn include the hamadrayas, among the smallest of these big monkeys a baboon |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $400: Michael Sheen voiced this bunny in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" the White Rabbit |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $800: At Acme Labs, this cartoon rodent pairs with "the Brain" to attempt world domination Pinky |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $1200: Grey Wind was the name of one of these that belonged to Robb Stark on "Game of Thrones" a wolf |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $1600: Chris Pratt's "beta" raptor from "Jurassic World" was named this, like the coloration on its skin Blue |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | COLORFUL POP CULTURE ANIMALS $2000: In a 1994 film, Alan Cumming voiced this title horse Black Beauty |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THIS & THAT $600: O. vulgaris, a species of this mollusk, has been called the most intelligent of all invertebrate animals an octopus |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Australia's coat of arms has the kangaroo and this bird. Both symbolize the country's forward motion, as it's believed the animals don't like to move backwards an emu |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | EARTH HISTORY $400: Leading to the first animals, this element began to build up in the atmosphere 2 BYA as a product of photosynthesis oxygen |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | GRAVESITE OFFERINGS $800: Fans visiting Graceland sometimes leave these stuffed animals from a 1957 hit song on Elvis' grave teddy bear |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $400: Fins & scales are required for these to be considered okay to eat fish |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $800: Camels & hares are unclean because this body part of theirs is not cloven a hoof |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $1200: The Ugly Duckling dodged a bullet--these birds of the genus Cygnus are deemed unclean to eat swans |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $1600: When the King James Bible refers to the "hart" as clean, it means these forest dwellers a deer |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $2000: The pig is forbidden because it doesn't do this like cows & goats do chew its cud |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | BEAUTY BRANDS $800: CoverGirl cosmetics is Leaping Bunny certified, meaning the company doesn't do this test on animals |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | SUBTRACT A LETTER $1000: Pluck a letter from these lovely flowers and they become small, stalky, maned animals peony & pony |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | METAPHORS $400: A white one of these animals is a metaphor for something too expensive for its owner to take care of an elephant |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BIOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The rhinoceros, the tapir & the horse all belong to the "odd-toed" group of these hoofed animals ungulates |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BIOLOGY $2000: It's not Tchaikovsky changing his mind, it's the term for an organism that breaks down dead plants & animals into simpler forms a decomposer |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | POKÉMON $600: The process of a Pokémon turning into another is known as this, like plants & animals adapting & changing over long periods evolution |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SNAILS $600: Snails make up part of the more than 45,000 species in this class of animals that has a name meaning "stomach foot" gastropods |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $400: From Latin for "all devouring", it's the term for an animal that eats both animals & plants omnivore |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | FEEL THE BERN! $800: Finn, Bjork & Ursina are a family of brown these big animals, fishing & climbing in a park in the heart of Bern since 2009 bears |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $400: 2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds a vampire bat |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: It can be a line of mountain ridges or a grazing land for animals a range |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Como Park Zoo.) Flamingos, which can live 20 to 30 years in the wild and even longer in captivity, get their pinkish color from the food they eat, like shrimp or plankton, and at the zoo, nutritionally complete pellets that all contain a red-orange pigment similar to this one found in squash and sweet potatoes beta-carotene |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $1200: Birds called kites include one that doesn't fly very fast; it doesn't need to as it eats only one species of this gastropod a snail |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Drone technology has allowed for amazing footage from Monterey Bay, showing a blue whale gulping a bountiful feast of this, its favorite food krill |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $2000: This Australian sea cow similar to the manatee has ivory tusks to dig up the sea grasses that make up its diet the dugong |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GARGOYLES $600: Some of the earliest known gargoyles are these animals on the Temple of Zeus; maybe they're the Nemean type lions |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANIMAL COMMUNITY $400: To make this home for the birth of their young, foxes enlarge burrows of other animals a den |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | TV PETS $2000: Arnold, one of these animals on "Green Acres", could change the TV channel & play the piano a pig |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY $1000: "Rodents of Unusual Size" is a documentary about these animals, once valued for pelts but now destroying southern wetlands nutria |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | NON-GENEVA CONVENTIONS $1200: Banning trade in many plants & animals, CITES is the Convention on International Trade in these Endangered Species |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | WOMEN SCIENTISTS $800: Dian Fossey's work with these animals in Rwanda led to their further protection from poaching gorillas |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | USELESS BODY PARTS $400: In animals, arrector pili muscles raise hairs, making them look larger; in humans, they only cause this "fowl" effect goosebumps |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | USELESS BODY PARTS $1000: We can't use it to detect pheromones like other animals, but we have a vestigial version of Jacobson's organ in this body part the nose |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $2000: Don't let the logo for this 5-letter store fool you--it sells products for other animals as well Petco |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $400: The giant species of this South American insectivore has no teeth & an up to 2-foot-long tongue an anteater |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $800: Some of these mammals give birth hanging upside down, with the mothers catching the baby in their wings as it drops a bat |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $1200: Animals react to winter weather in different ways; monarch butterflies set off on this type of journey a migration |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $1600: Lobsters & tarantulas both have these hard outer bodies that must be periodically molted exoskeletons |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | ANIMALS $2000: One of the largest structures made by rodents or any animal, a 2,800' long one is found in a Canadian national park a (beaver) dam |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | ELEMENT NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This alternate name for Tungsten is made up of 2 animals, one known to prey on the other wolfram |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | OUR PLANET $400: The innovative use of drones helped the crew capture one of these, the largest animals on Earth, alongside her curious young a blue whale |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ANIMAL TALK $1200: The axolotl is a member of this "double-life" class of animals that has more than 6,000 species amphibians |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $200: Part of this creature is seen here; its group names include a muster of them & an ostentation peacocks |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $400: Look quickly--it's called a coalition of these fastest felines cheetahs |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $600: A group of gorillas can be a troop or one of these; who's on bass? a band |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $800: It's a murder of crows & an unkindness of these related birds ravens |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $1000: A group of owls is a wisdom or one of these legislatures a parliament |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | EVERY ANIMAL HAS ITS DAY $600: This -hog can come out of the shadow of the groundhog; February 2 honors both animals a hedgehog |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army imported these creatures from Africa as pack animals--it didn't last camels |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | ORDER $400: There are more than 2,000 species in this order of animals including the capybara & the porcupine rodents |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: An experiment in which animals are reared in isolation to see what features are innate is named for this foundling of 19th c. Germany Kaspar Hauser |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $200: In 1975 Joe Walsh was the "New Kid In Town" in this band Eagles |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $400: In 1982 "A Flock of" these flew into the Top 10 with "I Ran (So Far Away)" Seagulls |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $600: Marc Bolan led the '70s glam rockers who used this short name of a dinosaur T. Rex |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $800: These alliterative alt-rock rodents had a 2004 hit with "Float On" Modest Mouse |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ROCK ANIMALS $1000: The name of this "Look Good On The Dancefloor" band combines a cold environment & tropical animals the Arctic Monkeys |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | ____ OF ____ $200: Because they hunt & feed on other animals, hawks & eagles are classified as these birds of prey |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FOR THE BIRDS $400: Birds are unique in having these, the obvious characteristic that distinguished them from all other modern animals feathers |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: According to the title of a book by Giles Andreae, these animals "can't dance" giraffes |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA):
The Eric Carle Museum has temporary tattoos of some of the animals in Carle's first book, the ones who ask this creature, "What do you see?" Brown Bear |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | "LL" ANIMALS $200: When a crocodile shuts its mouth, you can see lower jaw teeth, but when this relative does it, they're hidden alligator |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | "LL" ANIMALS $400: A "saddle" of graying hairs gives this primate the moniker "silverback" gorilla |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | "LL" ANIMALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Unlike the streamlined heads of most sharks, the hammerhead shark's head protrudes laterally; the front of the type of hammerhead seen here resembles a type or mollusk shell, so it gets this adjective scallop |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | "LL" ANIMALS $800: Prior to the lyrical direction to "Tie me kangaroo down", you're asked to watch this breed feed, mate a wallaby |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | "LL" ANIMALS $1000: The Saudi & Queen of Sheba types of this antelope proved not so swift, as they're now extinct gazelle |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $200: The concept of a "whisperer" who calms animals was popularized by this Nicholas Evans novel The Horse Whisperer |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | TAXONOMY $800: Aristotle divided animals into 3 main groups according to how they moved:
those that walk, those that swim & those that do this fly |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | UNPHARAOHS $1200: Legend says Psamtik III sacrificed his kingdom rather than fight when his foes brought these sacred animals, maus, into battle cats |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $200: After this island was ravaged by Hurricane Maria, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue & Southwest Air flew some pets to the USA Puerto Rico |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $400: For the littlest ones, Best Friends Animal Society provides this type of care, defined as "for newborns" neonatal care |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $600: Be Kind to Animals Week, celebrated in early May, was initiated in 1915 by the American this Organization (not the Society) the Humane Organization |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $800: This TV housewife rules in her devotion to animal welfare through her foundation & rescue center (Lisa) Vanderpump |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | SAVING THE ANIMALS $1000: In August 2018 more than 85,000 pets were adopted during the national Clear these places campaign shelters |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $400: The rhinoceros beetle is AKA the Hercules or this titan famous for shouldering burdens Atlas |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $800: Axolotls & mud puppies are types of this 10-letter amphibian salamanders |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $1200: The massive pincers on the guy seen here are used to open a certain tree-dropped item, giving the crab this name the coconut crab |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $1600: For their habit of walking on water, basilisk lizards are also named after him Jesus |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $2000: True to the name, the screaming hairy species of this plated mammal squeals when threatened an armadillo |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | VEGANS & VEGETARIANS $2000: This late leader of farm workers changed his diet after his dog, Boycott, taught him about animals' feelings (Cesar) Chavez |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: This very final 3-word phrase may come from a law requiring that bodies be buried deep so animals can't get to them six feet under |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | THE HUNTER $800: In Utah you need a basic hunting license, but for certain animals like bears, you need this 6-letter document a permit |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | TREES $2000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) These trees that provide shelter for many coast-dwelling animals have adapted with an open-air root system with lots of pores to capture the oxygen they don't get from the muddy water they grow in mangroves |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $800: This 6-letter name of the shrimp seen here also follows "praying" in the name of an insect mantis |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $1200: The griffon species of this bird has a featherless head, perhaps to keep blood from matting while eating a carcass a vulture |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $1600: This ugly eel with a very long snout has 2 sets of jaws & teeth moray |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $4,000 (Daily Double): Yes, yes, this nocturnal lemur seen here uses an elongated finger to pry insects from trees the aye-aye |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | BOOKS WITH ANIMAL POVs $800: "Watership Down" is told from the point of view of a group of these animals seeking a new safe place to live rabbits |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | PASTURE BEDTIME $400: The Merinos, these animals, help others go to sleep, then crash after jumping that little fence over & over sheep |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | PASTURE BEDTIME $800: As for these animals, le's say the Guernseys should be asleep by 8 & the Ayrshires, by 8;30 cows |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | PASTURE BEDTIME $2000: In chapter 6 of "Animal Farm", these animals start sleeping in beds, no exact time given pigs |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $200: Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country" takes us to this continent with its unique animals & friendly people too Australia |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AT THE ZOO $200: The zoo in Wellington, New Zealand works to preserve this national bird & other endangered native animals a kiwi |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | PORTUGUESE PRIMER $400: No animals are killed in the tourada, the Portuguese version of this event a bullfight |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | OCTOBER OBSERVANCES $600: Bring Fido & Felix to the Blessing of the Animals on October 4, the feast day of this saint St. Francis |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AT THE ZOO $1000: 200 rubles gains you admission to Russia's Novosibirsk Zoo & its many exotic animals, such as this feline hybrid a liger |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | FUN WITH TEAM NAMES $1000: This city's NBA & NFL teams run the full gamut of stock market animals Chicago |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $200: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) A 2013 study on diving mammals, like these Galapagos sea lions, found that they contain a positively charged myoglobin; it's a protein that allows them to store this gas, which permits them to stay underwater longer as they hunt for their fish prey oxygen |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $400: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) With eyes that are adapted for its hunting time when small fish rise to the surface to feed on plankton, the swallowtail gull is the only gull that can be described by this 9-letter adjective nocturnal |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $600: (Alex presents from the Galapagos islands.) Over 60,000 acres of the Galapagos Islands have been set aside for beneficial crops, like this grass of the genus Saccharum; this primitive but very effective press is helping to extract the juices--go Jimmy, go Jimmy sugar cane |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) Portulaca, which is this type of plant named for its water-storing tissues, will turn a bright yellow in the rainy season, & the land iguanas that feast on this plant will eagerly approach visitors, if they happen to be wearing yellow succulents |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1,200 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) "Darwin's finches writ large" is how Carl Safina describes this soaring bird; the waved type here in the Galapagos is the only truly tropical type, & it has evolved distinct markings that help provide its name the albatross |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | URBAN PLANNING $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a road on the monitor.) When roads, fences, or other human activity keeps animals from feeding or migrating, urban planners create these wildlife lanes, from the Latin "to run" a corridor |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | RIVERS $1200: Flowing through 5 of Brazil's states, the Tocantins River of South America is named after one of these animals a toucan |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $400: A varied collection, especially of animals a menagerie |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | PUN-ISHING CLUES $400: "Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower", or animals that live & feed on other animals Paris sites/parasites |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE OCTOPUS $1000: Octopi are called the smartest these, animals w/o backbones; in 2009 one disassembled a valve & flooded a Calif. aquarium an invertebrate |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT I WROTE $1200: "It's Too Late Now" looked back at how his son's stuffed animals were the genesis of this Brit writer's beloved characters A.A. Milne |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $400: Ocean dwellers with colorful names on the endangered list include the green turtle & this most massive animal the blue whale |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $1200: This longest river in China is home to the finless porpoise, now critically endangered the Yangtze |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $1600: The Badlands in South Dakota are home to the black-footed type of this weasel, back from the brink of extinction ferrets |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Found only in Vietnam & Laos the saola has parallel horns, yet it's also called "the Asian" this mythical creature a unicorn |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota.) Como Zoo offers programs to help raise awareness about orangutans, because largely to deforestation, the numbers are dwindling in their last two native habitats, leaving about 50,000 orangutans on Borneo & only 14,000 on this Indonesian island to the west Sumatra |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | A CONTROVERSIAL CATEGORY $600: "Resolved: humans are fundamentally different from other animals" was a 2017 big question from the National Speech & this Assn. debate |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AGRICULTURE $1000: Careful! If a farm disease is "zoonotic", by definition it can be spread this dangerous way from animals to humans |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Lyssa, a goddess of madness, is another word for this disease that makes animals irrationally vicious rabies |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $800: A cargo ship out of India loaded with zoo animals doesn't make its final port in this Yann Martel novel The Life of Pi |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | BEST SONG OSCARS $1600: "Talk To The Animals", from this 1967 film, was a winner Doctor Dolittle |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $1000: George Washington seems to also be the father of the American this breed, with two animals in its name a foxhound |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $1000: A medieval book of animals a bestiary |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | PLANET EARTH $2000: An annual 1-million-strong migration of these animals crosses the Mara River through a gauntlet of crocs the wildebeest |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | THE DAWN OF THE RAILROADS $400: Seguin locomotives in Germany had so much trouble maintaining steam in the 1830s, a team of these animals accompanied them horses |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | PRE-REC $600: The animals shown here can both be described as these a raptor |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $400: As well as a duck bill, this Aussie monotreme has a cloaca, an organ common in birds a platypus |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $800: Naked mole rats thrive in low-oxygen areas by switching the fueling of cells from glucose to this fruit sugar fructose |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1200: The Sphynx cat was selectively bred so that it would have minimal this fur |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1600: The unusual blue blood of the horseshoe type of this is used to detect bacterial toxins & test drugs for purity crab |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $2000: Although it's easy to find on Youtube, in real life, the slow type of this primate is endangered a loris |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE FICTION SECTION $400: Children, dead animals & Native American lore; what more could you want than this 1983 Stephen King novel Pet Sematary |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $1000: An essay that promoted kindness to animals inspired Anna Sewell to write this novel Black Beauty |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | SLOVENIA & SLOVAKIA $2,000 (Daily Double): A farm in the Slovenian town of Lipica is known for these animals it has bred for 400 years horses |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | SOCK IT TO ME $200: Original Rockford red heel socks come with instructions on making these animals, around since the 1900s sock monkeys |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | LITERARY AWARDS $800: In 1938 "Animals of the Bible" by Dorothy P. Lathrop became the first picture book to win this medal the Caldecott |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | MYTHOL-"O"-GY $1,000 (Daily Double): This son of Apollo & Calliope could enchant gods, people, animals & even trees with the sound of his lyre Orpheus |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $1200: It's the only sign of the Zodiac that's symbolized by a pair of non-human animals Pisces |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | HEAVENS $800: A Pennsylvania rescue farm with this alliterative name rescues hoofed animals, porcine or not Hog Heaven |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $400: Trichophilus welckeri algae grow in the fur of this slow arboreal mammal, giving it a green tint a sloth |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the giant shipworm on the monitor.) The giant shipworm comes out of its shell, & the bacteria inside allow it to digest the sulfur compound in the mud around it; it's not actually a worm, but from this shelled phylum mollusk |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $1600: There were more than 200 million live views online during the 16-month pregnancy of April, one of these a giraffe |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $2000: In 2017 the oldest this type of aquatic mammal in captivity died at age 69 in a Florida county of the same name a manatee |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $3,400 (Daily Double): In 1846 Joseph Leidy found & identified in this farm animal Trichina spiralis, a parasite that can be transmitted to humans a pig |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $400: This big marine mammal has been known to emit a plaintive cry when times are tough whale |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $800: This big ape sometimes joins the indigenous military to harass the enemy a gorilla |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $1200: When this leaping insect can't pay rent, he just gets the heck out of Dodge a flea |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $1600: When this cool cat is out of dough, he becomes different parts of a chain a lynx |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $2000: When this swinelike mammal needs extra money, he turns into a slender candle a tapir |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | THE BRITISH INVASION $400: This 1964 Animals song set in New Orleans was both a U.K. & U.S. No. 1 hit "House Of The Rising Sun" |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Hugh Lofting's letters to his kids from the WWI front evolved into the tales of this physician who talks to animals Dr. Dolittle |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $800: Seen here, it's used to make sure animals get their vitamins & minerals a salt lick |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: At the Duke University Chapel, the blessing of the animals is timed to be near the feast day of this saint St. Francis |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS $2000: American Humane certifies movies & TV shows with this 4-word trademark in the end credits "No Animals Were Harmed" |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $1000: According to this 2-word -ism, civilization is subject to the same laws of natural selection as animals Social Darwinism |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $400: A beetle with middle femurs that look like bulging biceps was named for this Austrian-born actor Schwarzenegger |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $1200: In 2014 scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur & named it Zuul after a demon in this 1984 movie Ghostbusters |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $1600: A fossilized one of these reptiles was named for Terry Pratchett--his "Discworld" rides on the back of one a turtle |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $2000: A recently discovered dog-like carnivore from prehistoric Egypt was named for this canine-headed god Anubis |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | NEW EPONYMOUS ANIMALS $4,600 (Daily Double): John Cleese is "absurdly fond" of these Madagascar animals, works to conserve them & got one named for him lemurs |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | GOOD CAUSES $200: The group "Helping" these animals works to save them from poaching for their horns, an illegal commodity in Asia rhinos |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $200: Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! a parrot |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $400: In 2017 Smooshie & Doobert of Team Ruff took on Slippers & Buttons of team Fluff in the XIIIth "playing" of this event the Puppy Bowl |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $600: $28 million in purses is available during the 13 thoroughbred races that make up this championship "Cup" the Breeders' Cup |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $800: In 2017 Rumor had it--Rumor being a canine, & "it" being named Best in Show at this competition in New York Westminster |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $1000: Every May brings the frog jumping competition at the fair of this county southeast of Sacramento Calaveras County |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | DESERTS $2000: You'll find the Nazca lines, geoglyphs depicting animals & symbols, on the desert floor of this country Peru |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1000: Her fight against gorilla poachers intensified in 1978 after the killing of Digit, one of her favorite animals Dian Fossey |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $8,000 (Daily Double): "Royal March Of The Lions", "The Elephant", "Aquarium" & "The Swan" are all part of this French work Carnival of the Animals |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $600: An arctophile:
these cuddly toys teddy bears |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL $800: Some oppose speciesism, which denies the rights of these animals |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | CLASSICS ON AUDIBLE $400: The wit & irony of this satiric novel are captured by David Hyde Pierce
"As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals" Gulliver's Travels |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $200: Some species of this creature with a mythic beast in its name can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour a dragonfly |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $400: These rodents of the American West don't just bark; their sounds can tell the colony, "Tall human in blue shirt approaching" a prairie dog |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $600: This tree-dwelling carnivore of Asia combines ursine and feline creatures in its name a cat-bear (or bear-cat) |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $800: The horned toad of the Americas isn't a toad at all, nor even a frog, but one of these reptiles a lizard |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES $1000: Not actually swine but rodents, they may be pets, lab research subjects or food, depending where you are guinea pigs |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | ANIMATED FELINES $800: Lake Bell voiced fat cat Chloe in this 2016 movie about what your animals do when you're not around The Secret Life of Pets |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | ANIMAL FARM $400: These animals in the novel are said to represent the masses at large; four legs good, two legs ba-a-a-a-d sheep |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | ANIMAL FARM $800: Among the animals' 7 commandments are bans on sleeping in a bed & drinking this alcohol |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | ANIMAL FARM $1600: At a meeting of the animals, this prized "Old" boar claims, "Man is the only real enemy we have" Old Major |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | ANIMAL FARM $2,000 (Daily Double): Each Sunday the animals hoist their hoof & horn flag, which Orwell used to represent this Communist symbol the hammer and sickle |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. $1600: G.R.:
this place where wild animals are kept safe a game reserve |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | ZOOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $200: Ovoviviparous describes animals such as rattlesnakes that develop these inside the body eggs |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | A LONG TIME AGO IN AMERICA $1600: By about 9,000 B.C., many large animals in North America were extinct, including this "breast tooth" species a mastodon |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | AMPHIBIANS $1200: Special these in a toad's warts secrete poison that can cause paralysis or death in small animals glands |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $400: "White" in Russian, this type of whale can mimic different sounds & has been known to rescue humans the beluga |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video and an animation on the monitor.) When confronted with prey, the electric eel can double the charge of its shock when it's positive this at the head & negative one at the tail come into proximity the poles |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $800: Paul, one of these in a German aquarium, got a lot of ink after going 6-for-6 in World Cup picks in 2010 an octopus |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $1000: Prey are attracted to the end of the appendage on this tricky creature, whose name contains a term for a fisherman an anglerfish |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A 2015 discovery of a Plains Indian site included a kind of mini-Stonehenge of these animals' bones the buffalo |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | LOGO ANIMALS $400: The National Broadcasting Company peacock |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | LOGO ANIMALS $800: Merrill Lynch a bull |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | LOGO ANIMALS $1200: Sriracha Hot Sauces a rooster |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | LOGO ANIMALS $1600: tripadvisor.com an owl |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | LOGO ANIMALS $2000: Peugeot a lion |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $200: Title type of animal in a 2005 "Chronicles of Narnia" movie a lion |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $400: 2008 animated film about a portly black & white hero who becomes the Dragon Warrior Kung Fu Panda |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $600: (Hi, I'm Neil Flynn.) On "The Middle", my character Mike Heck loves this Quentin Tarantino movie about Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink & a diamond heist gone bad Reservoir Dogs |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $800: With 5 Oscars including Christopher Walken's, this 1978 Michael Cimino film shot to the top Deer Hunter |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $1000: As Rufus T. Firefly in 1933, Groucho doled out this avian potage duck soup |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $400: This city in New York state is sometimes called "Nickel City" Buffalo |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $800: About 3% of this country lies at the eastern edge of southern Europe in Thrace Turkey |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1200: This river rises in New Mexico & flows into the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona the Gila River |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1600: This island known for its great wineries is just a short hop by plane from Adelaide, Australia Kangaroo Island |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $2000: Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede in this Tennessee town is billed as "the most fun place to eat in the Smokies" Pigeon Forge |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BIOLOGY $1200: In taxonomy, animals are classified by domain, then kingdom, then this subdivision phylum |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | WHAT'S NOT TO LICHEN? $800: The Siberian herd of these animals seen here feeds on lichens during the winter caribou (or reindeer) |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | AN ECO-CATEGORY $200: "Flora" refers to the plants of an ecosystem; this word often paired with it refers to the animals fauna |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | CONSTELLATIONS $9,600 (Daily Double): Zeus placed Callisto in the night sky as one of these animals; her son Arcturus was her "keeper" in the stars a bear |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | ENDS WITH K $1000: Small, enclosed exercise field for animals a paddock |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $400: We couldn't do the category without showing the death face of this critter, the big faker an opossum |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $800: A male nursery web spider offers a female an insect wrapped in this; if snubbed, he deads up & gets dragged off with the gift silk |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $1200: When confronted, the hognose snake can play dead or spread its skin around its head & neck like a king this snake a cobra |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $1600: Found in the Southwest, the 9-banded type of this plays dead if captured, but if that fails, kicks like crazy armadillo |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $2000: Fire-bellied toads say "don't eat me" by showing their red bellies, a warning of this poison |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $200: The National Institutes of Health has sent most of its 360 of these lab apes to a swinging retirement home chimpanzees |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $400: This wild dog of North America is also known as a prairie wolf or brush wolf a coyote |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $600: Orinoco is one species of this river-dwelling reptile a crocodile |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $800: Unlike most parrots, this parrot of Australia & New Guinea can raise & lower its crest of feathers a cockatoo |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | "C" ALL THE ANIMALS $1000: This rodent of Panama & South America can weigh as much as 100 pounds & grow to 4 feet in length a capybara |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | THE SAVAGE BEAST $600: This James Patterson tale of animals going on the attack became a series on CBS Zoo |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | STRINGING YOU ALONG $400: This material used to make tennis racket strings comes from the dried intestines of animals but not pets gut (or catgut) |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MAN VS. BEAST $1000: New South Wales' webpage on the control of these animals includes fences, as in the title of a 2002 movie rabbits |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE ESCAPES ME $1200: The 2008 sequel to this 2005 animated feature about Central Park Zoo animals is subtitled "Escape 2 Africa" Madagascar |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $200: Raining or not, the French names of these 2 animals are chat et chien cat and dog |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $400: Le loup is this carnivore the wolf |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $600: Le canard is this; someone pass the orange sauce duck |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $800: Down on a French farm, this is le mouton a sheep |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANIMALS IN FRENCH $1000: This subject of songs, seen here, is le merle a blackbird |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) In China, giant pandas, with their black-&-white fur, were thought to be a physical manifestation of these two principles that come together to create peace & harmony yin & yang |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $400: Including the giant & sea species, they're the most aquatic members of the weasel family otters |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $600: A cackle is a group of these African mammals, one of which is heard here hyenas |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): While it feeds mainly on termites & the insect in its name, this toothless mammal also enjoys avocados an anteater |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Extinct in the wild until recently, Przewalski's horse, the only truly wild horse, has been reintroduced back into China & this landlocked neighbor to the north, where it is a symbol of national heritage Mongolia |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $1000: Zechariah predicted the new king would arrive in Jerusalem on one of these animals, & Jesus later does an ass (a donkey accepted) |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | "Y"s UP $1000: Add 1 letter to a device used to pair draft animals to get this term for a country bumpkin a yokel |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | BEAR WITH US $400: These Arctic animals may weigh less than 3 pounds at birth but later, around a ton polar bears |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) They're symbols of peace & friendship, & sadly, in their native China, only about 1,800 giant pandas remain in the wild, primarily due to destruction of the forests that provide this tall, woody grass that these guys can each eat over 50 pounds of daily bamboo |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Without native mammals present, kiwis thrived for over 35 million years, but today they're endangered & facing extinction, largely because they're flightless and can't escape from introduced predators in this, their native country New Zealand |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) Known since ancient times & extinct in the wild until recent reintroductions, the scimitar-horned oryx is noted for its long, curved horns; if one breaks off, it doesn't grow back, which may have inspired the myth of this legendary creature the unicorn |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) With fewer than 50,000 left in the wild, Asian elephants, like their larger African cousins, are facing extinction due to habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, & this crime, the illegal killing, capturing, or stealing of wildlife poaching |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ENDANGERED ANIMALS AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL ZOO $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C..) The Sumatran tiger is the smallest subspecies & has the narrowest stripes; largely due to habitat loss & the illegal wildlife trade, there are as few as 400 left on their native island in this country Indonesia |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $200: Vinicius, the mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics hosted by this city, is a mixture of all the Brazilian animals Rio de Janeiro |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $400: Buzz the Bee is the mascot of this General Mills cereal (Honey Nut) Cheerios |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $600: In a 2010 movie Justin Timberlake voiced this sidekick to Yogi Bear Boo-Boo |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $800: Brian is a dog that can speak on this TV show Family Guy |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $1000: On film a Maine harbormaster & his family have their hands full with "Andre", one of these aquatic mammals a seal |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | ADVERTISING ICONS $400: Yipes, who is one of these animals, is the appropriate mascot for Fruit Stripe gum a zebra |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | -OLOGIES $2000: In anthropology, from the Latin for "shepherd", it's the way of life based on keeping herds of animals pastoral |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: From the Greek for "human being", it's the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects anthropomorphism |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | TV THEMES $800: This Netflix series' theme song begins, "The animals, the animals, trap trap trap till the cage is full" Orange Is the New Black |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | @_FloridaMan $400: Fla. man "Ordered to Stay Away From Animals After Throwing Live" this state reptile "Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window" an alligator |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | THE SINGING "B" $2000: He sang lead for the Animals on "It's My Life" & "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" Eric Burdon |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $200: A spotted pattern on the whale shark seems to act as this, but how do you hide when you're 40 feet long? camouflage |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $400: If the 2-toed type of this mammal falls off its tree, thick skin protects it, but it will be mostly helpless until returned a sloth |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $600: Pinnipeds, meaning "flipper-footed", include sea lions, seals & these, of the family Odobenus walruses |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $800: This was the first dog breed to collect admissible evidence for American courts of law a bloodhound |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | ANIMALS $1000: This term for animals like cows & sheep means they chew their cud a ruminant |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $400: Also known as sand crab, this type of crab gets its name for how it blends into beaches & dunes--I'm calling that one Casper a ghost crab |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $800: A literary character gave his name to this fish discovered in 2009--we want you to notice its fangs Dracula |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $1200: Hey, you old bag of bones--this type of shrimp, also known as the praying mantis of the sea, hangs out with us in SoCal skeleton shrimp |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $1600: You may recognize the death's-head hawk this from its star turn in the "Silence of the Lambs" a moth |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | BEASTLY APPENDAGES $1200: On animals like lizards, autotomy is an evasive defense mechanism that lets them do this get rid of their tail |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HOOSIER HISTORY $1600: A trail or "trace" across the state was first used by these animals it's named for, then Native Americans, then settlers buffalo |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | SNL CRACKS US UP $200: Andy Samberg played this "Ted" actor as he "Talks to Animals" on "SNL"; say hi to your mother for me, okay? Mark Wahlberg |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THE BEAST $400: One of the 2 counties in Nebraska named after animals; they both once roamed free there Buffalo (or Antelope) |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | TELE-NOVELAS $800: This prolific author's novel "Zoo", about animals attacking humans, was turned into a TV series in 2015 James Patterson |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE $2000: At God's urging, Adam performs this task in Genesis 2, then takes a long nap the naming of the animals |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $400: This tallest land animal was once known as a camelopard a giraffe |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $800: These quadrupeds can open their jaws 150 degrees & are strong enough to bite a crocodile in half a hippopotamus |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1200: It's not George W.'s offspring, but this tree-dwelling primate of Africa a bush baby |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1600: With 4 toes on each foot, pigs are classified as even-toed members of this hoofed animal group ungulates |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): During their trip around S. America, Magellan's crew saw new creatures including this bird they called a black goose a penguin |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $200: Akela the wolf & Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories The Jungle Book |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | ART HISTORY $400: Lascaux Cave has outstanding prehistoric art, including the Hall of these animals seen here the Bulls |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | ASIAN FOOD $1600: In the Philippines, a lechon is an entire one of these animals slowly spit-roasted over coals a pig |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In Mark 16 Jesus tells his followers that they will be able to handle these deadly animals without fear snakes |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | YOU NEED FOOD TO GROW ON $600: Order the sheepshead; like most of these animals, it's a good source of omega-3 fatty acids the fish |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | EXTINCT CREATURES $400: In 2015 researchers inserted this animals' genes related to its cold lifestyle into an Asian elephant, a close relative a mammoth |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $200: The West Indian species of this sea cow is Alabama's official state marine mammal a manatee |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $400: In 1995 Missouri designated this stubborn equine its state animal a mule |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $600: School kids in Montana chose this fierce brown bear to be the state's official animal a grizzly |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $800: Kentucky & Maryland, which both host legs of the Triple Crown, both have this as the state horse a thoroughbred |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | OFFICIAL STATE ANIMALS $1000: The peregrine this is Idaho's state raptor a falcon |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | CITY NICKNAMES $400: Agadir, Morocco is "the City of Blue Men", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals camels |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ANIMALS IN DANGER $400: It's black & white & loved all over, not just in its native China, where it's considered a national treasure the panda |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ANIMALS IN DANGER $800: With fewer than 1,000 living wild in the Gobi Desert, the Bactrian type of this is critically endangered the camel |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ANIMALS IN DANGER $1200: One of the most endangered mammals is the northern hairy-nosed one of these marsupials a wombat |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ANIMALS IN DANGER $1600: Though this Indian tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies, there are as few as 2,500 left in the wild a Bengal |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ANIMALS IN DANGER $2000: Along with the forests it inhabits, the golden lion species of this small monkey is in danger of disappearing a marmoset |
| #7243, aired 2016-02-24 | SCIENCE $200: Newts & toads are members of this class of animals amphibians |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | GOOD CAUSES $400: The USA's first humane society & today's leading voice for animal welfare, it's celebrating its 150th anniv. in 2016 the ASPCA (the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: These Arab nomads are classified in castes according to the animals they keep, with camels being the most prestigious the Bedouins |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | LONG TIME $400: Lin Wang, an Asian one of these animals who carried supplies in World War II, lived until 2003 when he was 86 an elephant |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | SCULPTURE $1600: His 1901 sculpture "The Cheyenne" was inspired by the photo book "Animals in Motion" Frederic Remington |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | HORSE HEALTH $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis.) At UC Davis, they not only save the lives of animals, they also create new life through their equine reproduction services; for mares, when it doesn't happen the old-fashioned way, it does happen by this 2-word process artificial insemination |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $200: The deepest-living of all octopuses, the Dumbo octopus gets its name from fins that look like these elephant ears |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $400: The egg-laying mammal called the echidna is sometimes referred to as the spiny this anteater |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $600: The Mexican walking fish's name suggests it's one of these, comfortable in 2 environments amphibian |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) The flying snake can glide short distances by undulating to maintain balance as they come down & flattening the tiny plates called these on its skin scales |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $1000: This 5-letter animal looks like it has some zebra blood, but it's actually related to the giraffe the okapi |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | LODGE PODGE $400: In "The Song of Hiawatha", you'll find Pau-Puk-Keewis, "chief and king of all" these animals who live in lodges beavers |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $400: Champion Slobbering Runaway has misadventures at this dog show's 50th edition in 1926 the Westminster Dog Show |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $800: Little Gusano is one of these living in a bottle of mezcal, until the day he's set free a worm |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $2000: Terry Termite learns to read when he follows the line made by a pen whose ink mimics these chemicals pheromones |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | COBBLERS $600: Lance Clark created the shoes known by this name that sounds just like certain Australian animals Wallabees |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A vessel holding water or feed for animals, it now also means a source of illicit income, like for politicians a trough |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NATURE'S WONDERS $2000: Humans' nearest genetic cousins are these animals, who are about 99% genetically similar to us chimps |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER NEW WORDS $1200: Colony collapse disorder refers to the death of these animals (honey)bees |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | ORDERS OF MAMMALS $400: Animals like anteaters in the order Pilosa are called edentates, meaning they lack these or have few of them teeth |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | SWORDS $2000: The national flag of Sri Lanka depicts one of these animals holding a sword a lion |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $200: Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above Wilbur's pen, is one of these a spider |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $400: Ferdinand, who only wants to smell flowers under his favorite cork tree a bull |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $600: Shere Khan, Mowgli's nemesis a tiger |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $800: Olivia, who "Saves the Circus" & "Forms a Band" a pig |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ANIMALS IN KIDS' BOOKS $1000: Zephir, Babar's friend a monkey |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY $600: This word for the animals of a particular region is from the Latin fauna |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | THE 1990s $800: Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, was a Finn Dorset one of these animals a sheep |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $200: This mammal is nicknamed the "ship of the desert" a camel |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $400: The "lead" in pencils is actually clay mixed with this mineral, a form of carbon graphite |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $600: Having short spikelike antlers & weighing about 20 pounds, the pudu is the smallest member of this animal family the deer |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $800: They've been described as looking like anemic carrots parsnips |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, MINERALS $1000: The name of this mineral is from the Greek for "fire"; as well as fooling gold-seekers, it produced the spark in wheel-lock guns (iron) pyrite |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $1000: Articles at this site: "14 Animals that Have Swagger for Days" & "Which Harry Potter Character Is Your Drunk Alter Ego?" BuzzFeed |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $1200: River buffalo are draft animals in this African land that has a river running 1,000 miles north through it Egypt |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | "SHO" TIME $1600: A large group of aquatic animals, or an area of shallow water shoal |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH $400: This adjective is used to describe animals allowed to graze outside & unconfined free-range |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH $800: It sounds like snaring a groom, but it's the care & raising of domesticated animals husbandry |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) A few of South Dakota's most recognizable animals!--you could have your own one of these prairie dog colonies, that early explorers called by this name of human settlements towns |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | LET'S HAVE LEFTOVERS $1600: Using negotiations & protests, this organization got McDonald's to improve conditions for its farmed animals PETA |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY DICTIONARY $600: We don't condone testing on animals but a lab rat or this small tailless rodent might be the subject of an experiment guinea pig |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | PARABLES OF JESUS $400: Jesus asks if you have a hundred of these animals & one is lost, wouldn't you leave the 99 to find the lost one sheep |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | TURNING OVER A NEW REEF $2000: Animals that need reefs for habitat include the hawksbill type of this reptile, which has a beaky mouth & 2-clawed flippers the turtle |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | "G"-OLOGY $400: It's the instrument being used to move the animals along goad |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Art found in the Altamira cave in this country depicts wild animals from more than 20,000 years ago Spain |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | JUST KIDDING $600: A. Whitney Brown: "I'm a" this "not because I love animals, but because I hate plants" a vegetarian |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Alan's always been such a gentle boy. He loves animals! Especially horses" Equus |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | CREATURE COMFORTS $400: Chickadees line these with the fur of dogs & other animals their nests |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | STOCK SYMBOLS $600: Kids & adults like to create their own stuffed animals at this retailer, symbol BBW Build-a-Bear |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | POST OFFICE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the U.S. Post Office in Chicago, IL.) The United States postal service's processing of almost 160 billion pieces of mail annually begins with giant sorting machines; mail is first separated by shape & size, a process called this, like winnowing animals from a herd culling |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | ANIMAL CLOSE-UPS $200: These animals' markings are like fingerprints, allowing for easy identification zebras' stripes |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | SONG LYRICS $400: "Where the buffalo roam" is also where these 2 animals "play" the deer & the antelope |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CATS & DOGS $400: It follows Shetland & Old English in the names of dog breeds used to guide other animals sheepdog |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: The first 3 letters in this study of animals is a place you'd find a lot of 'em zoology |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $200: In Genesis 2 Adam gives names to the animals; in Genesis 6, this man rounds 'em up Noah |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | BOOKS & ARTHURS $600: In kids' books by Marc Brown, Arthur is one of these animals aardvark |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS $1000: Before "society", it denotes sympathy for animals & their treatment humane |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | INITIALLY YOURS $1200: Beatrix Potter's stories of dressed, talking animals influenced some "chronicles" by this author, 32 years younger C.S. Lewis |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA $200: This animal has "great engineering skill and... belongs to the order of rodents, or gnawing animals" a beaver |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $400: This 3-toed arboreal mammal has extra neck vertebrae that allow it to turn its head 270 degrees a sloth |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $800: This colorful bird's large bill, which may reach 8 inches in length, helps regulate its body temperature a toucan |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $1200: The females of this giant water boa are longer than the males by an average of around 10 feet an anaconda |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $2000: This pig-like mammal has a prehensile snout that it uses to pluck fruit or leaves from branches a tapir |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $400: A faked segment in a Disney documentary helped perpetuate the myth that these rodents commit suicide lemmings |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $800: The Arctic type of this canine is the only native land mammal in Iceland a fox |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $1200: This "white whale" is known as the "canary of the sea" for the chirps & other sounds it makes beluga |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $2000: The Eskimos of Alaska's North Slope call this beast an oomingmak, or "animal with skin like a beard" the musk ox |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $10,000 (Daily Double): The fur of this largest weasel family land animal is used to trim parkas because it doesn't mat or freeze in the cold a wolverine |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | 4-LETTER OPPOSITES $1200: Adulterated:
some animals are this-bred pure |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $200: Don't ever forget that a herd of these African & Asian mammals is sometimes called a memory elephant |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $400: The western lowland type of this can sometimes be found in the mist gorilla |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $600: California's flag has one a bear |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $800: This water mammal has long been thought friendly--in mythology Arion rode to safety on its back a dolphin |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ANIMALS ALL AROUND $1000: This creature is used to drive rabbits out of their burrows, which is why its name also means "to search out" ferret |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $200: The name of this creature is a nickname for a citizen of New Zealand a kiwi |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $400: This national animal of Spain doesn't get much love at the corrida a bull |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $600: Canada's national animals are a horse & this one whose pelt played an important part in its history a beaver |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | WEIRD SPORTS $800: (Mike & Mike of ESPN deliver the clue.) The strangest sport in the world has got to be the wife carrying championships, held every year in Scandinavia... but not as weird as the championships held in Nepal where they play polo matches using these largest land animals elephants |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $800: Bolivia uses this animal for wool, to carry loads &, going back to 1827, on coins a llama |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $3,600 (Daily Double): There are no photographs, only illustrations of this symbol of Mauritius a dodo (bird) |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | IT'S AN EXPERIMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1940s John Draize did eye irritancy tests of these cute animals; we don't like scientists to do that anymore rabbits |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: "The Bloody-Shouldered Arabian" was one of many of these animals depicted by 18th c. artist John Wootton horse |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: In 1980 it organized the USA's first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest PETA |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $400: Kenya has a library service in which books for nomads are transported across the desert via these animals camels |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS $800: For the naturalist who discussed his theory of evolution in "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" 400 (= CD) |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a group of animals running through the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though it looks less elegant than other antelopes, one of the fastest & most tireless runners is the red type of this ruminant whose name includes an Afrikaans & English word for deer the hartebeest |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a chameleon in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Gaudy male chameleons pass on their genes more effectively than dull-looking ones--that's an example of what Darwin called the sexual type of this, favoring animals that are better at finding mates natural selection |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $800: These predators of the tropics can mass in huge numbers and turn much larger animals into their prey army ants |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | & FUZZY $200: In a kids' rhyme, Fuzzy Wuzzy was a hairless one of these animals a bear |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $1600: In taxonomy the traditional 5 of these divisions are plants, animals, fungi, protists & bacteria kingdoms |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $400: The Minotaur's mother was Pasiphae, the Queen of Crete, & his father was this animal with whom she fell in love a bull |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $800: About once every 500 years, it builds a funeral pyre & allows itself to be consumed by the flames the phoenix |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): This creature killed by Hercules during his second labor was the offspring of the 100-headed Typhon the hydra |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $1200: In Norse mythology, Ratatoskr is this type of rodent that scurries up & down Yggdrasil, the World Tree a squirrel |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $2000: Represented as this canine, Anubis was gatekeeper of the underworld; statues of him often guarded tombs a jackal |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | BIBLICAL ART $400: An 1846 painting by Edward Hicks shows animals entering this, 2 by 2 Noah's Ark |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $200: When these birds get together, they're in a company or pandemonium; Polly wanna party! parrots |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) A herd of zebras is called this 6-letter word, perhaps because of the blinding effect of all those stripes on your eyes a dazzle |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $600: 3-letter organized crime term for a bunch of kangaroos a mob |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $800: Nevermore will you be unaware that a group of these birds is known as an unkindness a raven |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $1000: A group of these tot-totin' avians get together as a mustering storks |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | KENYA WEST $800: 120 years ago what's now Nairobi was this, an oasis for thirsty animals (&, informally, thirsty people) a watering hole |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NAMES IN NATURE $600 (Daily Double): They have only one cell each but can take pride in their name. from the Greek for "first animals" protozoa |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's an antonym of tame for animals feral |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | TIME OF THE CAVEMAN $1600: The Lascaux cave paintings show aurochs, a beast 6' at the shoulder from which these modern farm animals descend cows |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | CEREAL CHARACTERS $800: Cornelius is one of these animals selling Kellogg's corn flakes a rooster |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | YOU LIVE IN A ZOO $1000: Nicknamed the bushman's clock, this Aussie critter is helpful in rousing the other animals in the morning a kookaburra |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: 8-letter adjective describing the science of animals (20 points) zoologic |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | GRIMM, GRIM $1600: 2 of these animals were harmed big-time in "Little Red-Cap"; one by a rough diet of stones, the other by drowning wolves |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | DISEASES $1200: The disease that kills all these animals in Egypt in Exodus 9:6 is believed to have been anthrax livestock (or cattle) |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | A CLASH OF SYMBOLS $600: In an 1874 cartoon Thomas Nast drew this creature scaring other animals, including an elephant a donkey |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FIELD OF DREAMS $200: Dream states have been observed in all mammals studied, from tiny shrews to these largest land animals elephants |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | TRAVEL BOOKS $800: Referring to advice on facing animals, "Whatever You do, Don't Run" tells of Peter Allison's time as a guide on this type of trip safari |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: If an animal eats both plants & animals, it's classified as one of these an omnivore |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $400: Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds feature equus simplicidens, the first true one of these animals horse |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | PICK UP THE PACE $1600: Listed as a synonym & a rhyme for "hurry", this word brings animals to mind scurry |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | SCIENCE ROUNDUP $1200: There are more than 400 different types of salamanders, & all belong to this class of animals, not reptiles amphibians |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $400: Kipling said the camel's this "is an ugly lump" a hump |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $800: Elizabeth Anna Hart wrote about "Mother Tabbyskins", this type of animal a cat |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Ted Walker cleverly likened this colorful pet fish to the "spillings of rich coins on a miser's table" a goldfish |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $1600: Emily Dickinson's poem about this kind of animal begins , "A narrow fellow in the grass" & ends, "zero at the bone" a snake |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $2000: Coleridge, not Poe, wrote a poem with the question "Where then did" this bird "go?" a raven |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | -OLOGIES $2000: Zoology is the study of animals in general; this is the study of animals like whales & dolphins cetology |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ANIMAL IDENTITY $1600: Seen here, it's one of the few animals whose common & binomial names are the same the boa constrictor |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This word for a group of people traveling with pack animals, perhaps across a desert, is derived from Persian caravan |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $400: This country's neighbors to the east include Iran, Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan Turkey |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $800: Gillette stadium at 1 Patriot Place in this town is home to the New England Patriots Foxborough |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1200: Slide mountain is the highest point in these mountains in southeastern New York known for their resorts the Catskills |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $2000: The 1912 eruption of Mount Novarupta covered this largest Alaskan island with 3 feet of ash Kodiak Island |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $6,100 (Daily Double): In 1982 this archipelago off Africa's northwest coast became an autonomous region of Spain the Canary Islands |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | GONE $2000: In the old days if someone held the job of a hostler, he was employed to tend these animals at an inn horses |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | CARNY ART $1200: "The Carnival of Animals" by this hyphenated French composer was not performed publicly during his lifetime (Camille) Saint-Saëns |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | LIGHT VERSE $800: "Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand," these 2 title animals of an Edward Lear poem "danced by the light of the moon" the Owl and the Pussycat |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $600: General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life the bison (or the buffalo) |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | "YO" LO $200: It's a harness for multiple draft animals so they can pull together a yoke |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | 2 ANIMALS IN ONE $400: Saddle up & name this livestock pest seen here a horsefly |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | 2 ANIMALS IN ONE $800: This bottom dweller is named for the barbels around its mouth that resemble feline whiskers a catfish |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | 2 ANIMALS IN ONE $1200: This largest pinniped is named for its size & for the trunklike, inflatable snout of the male an elephant seal |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | 2 ANIMALS IN ONE $2,000 (Daily Double): This little rodent hops on its hind legs, just like its namesake marsupial a kangaroo rat |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | 2 ANIMALS IN ONE $2000: This predator of the deep includes the name of an Asian predator a tiger shark |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED $200: Wrench & shines monkey |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED $400: Bumps & berry goose |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED $600: Feathers & latitudes horse |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED $800: Rock & tears crocodile |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED $1000: Mom & balm tiger |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) Tarzan |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $400: "Bear" sometimes follows the name of this Aussie mammal that's actually 100% marsupial a koala |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $800: This South American rodent is not from the African place in its name, nor will you hear it go "oink" a Guinea pig |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $1200: This two-word "canine" seen here is actually a burrowing rodent that belongs to the squirrel family a prairie dog |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $1600: This word comes before "lemur", but the animal really only glides a couple of hundred feet--& isn't a lemur flying |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $2000: Not a rodent as it might seem, the tufted this is a bird that feeds mainly on insects a titmouse |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $400: When Tarzan called Tantor, one of these animals would come trumpeting & tearing a big path an elephant |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $800: This little girl who lives at the Plaza has a turtle named "Skipperdee" who eats raisins & wears sneakers Eloise |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1200: In a trilogy Katniss Everdeen wears a gold pin of this genetically altered bird a mockingjay |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1600: Gunpowder is the "broken-down plough-horse" this man rides in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Ichabod Crane |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $2000: In this Richard Adams classic, Blackberry is the smartest of the rabbits, but Hazel is the leader Watership Down |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $400: Wild animals lie down at Tamino's feet when he plays the title instrument in Act I of this Mozart opera The Magic Flute |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $400: Hedgehogs are often confused with these quilled rodents porcupines |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us some parrots in the jungle in Costa Rica.) Parrots aren't really great talkers; they don't even have vocal chords; their mimicry is actually whistling produced by an organ at the base of this, the windpipe the trachea |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also called a suricate, this member of the mongoose family stands upright when watching for predators a meerkat |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1600: The name of this Eurasian bird of the crow family also means to cheat or swindle a rook |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $2000: The 3 green species of this poisonous African snake in the cobra family are small & timid, but the black one is big & mean a mamba |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ANCIENT ANGKOR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Angkor Wat in Cambodia.) This enormous structure leads us into the inner enclosure; gates at either side are nicknamed for these creatures--the processional animals they were probably designed to accommodate elephants |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LET'S GO TO THE CIRCUS $2000: You'll enjoy the show less but learn more if you visit this organization's "How do circuses train animals?" FAQ PETA |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | MEET THE MONOTREMES! $800: Monotreme means 3 internal canals lead to 1 common opening, same as in this scaly class of land animals reptiles |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | THE ANIMA"LL" KINGDOM $200: The alpaca & this relative are domestic animals not known to exist in a wild state a llama |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | BANNED! $200: In the 1930s his "Alice" work was banned in China on the grounds that animals should not use human language Lewis Carroll |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | MYTHING IN ACTION $800: In Norse mythology's great final battle, Fenrir, a giant one of these animals, is destined to swallow Odin a wolf |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | MEDICAL ETYMOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "coal", it's transmitted by farm animals, contaminated wool & biological weapons anthrax |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | GEORGE, UHHH... $400: I've gone blank...he was born Eric Blair & wrote that book about barnyard animals that overthrow their human masters George Orwell |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $800: Disney animators studied real animals & photos of the forests of Maine to portray nature in this 1942 film Bambi |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | REMEMBER BOOKSTORES? $800: A common sight at small bookstores is an in-house one of these animals, like the late Silas at A Novel Idea in Lincoln, Nebraska cats |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | THE 5 SENSES $1000: On animals these, also known as vibrissae, act as tactile organs whiskers |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | LIFE ON THE MEKONG $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads with two cart-yoked ungulates from Vietnam.) As in many parts of the world, male bovines are used as draft animals & called by this general term; they may not look very fast, but a race run between these animals is an annual Mekong Delta event oxen |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BIRTHDAY PARTY LOCATIONS $200: You & your friends can gape at the animals at the Central Park this, where "Madagascar" is set the zoo |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BEATRIX POTTER TITLE ANIMALS $200: "The Tale of Peter ___" Rabbit |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BEATRIX POTTER TITLE ANIMALS $400: "The Tale of ____ Nutkin" Squirrel |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BEATRIX POTTER TITLE ANIMALS $600: "The Tale of Benjamin ___" Bunny |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BEATRIX POTTER TITLE ANIMALS $800: "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-___" Duck |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BEATRIX POTTER TITLE ANIMALS $1000: "The Tale of Johnny Town-___" Mouse |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | IT'S MOVIE TIME $200: Rex Harrison & Eddie Murphy have both played this Doctor who talked to the animals Doctor Dolittle |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | PATRON SAINTS $800: Patron Saint of Animals & Italy, in 1979 he was proclaimed the Patron Saint of Ecology as well St. Francis |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | "GAS" UP $800: Whelks are these animals whose name is from the Greek for "stomach foot" gastropods |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS $600: My 2020 vision tells me that 2020 is the year of this, be it sewer or kangaroo rat |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS $800: Babies born in 2022 will have the "eye of" this & will pounce on their work as they do their enemies the tiger |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS $1000: Folks born in 2009, the year of this 2-letter creature, are hardworking & detail-oriented the ox |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THE OCCULT $400: Popular with astronomers & astrologers, this word comes from a Greek phrase meaning "circle of little animals" a zodiac |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THE OCCULT $1000: Like the Romans, if you're interpreting the behavior of sacred animals, you're practicing this divination augury |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | "D" SCIENCE $1200: In dogs & some other animals, this vestigial digit does not reach the ground when walking the dewclaw |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | ONE NIGHT WHEN I COULDN'T SLEEP... $200: 11:30: Saw one of his Top 10 "Ways to Make 'Jeopardy!' More Exciting": "contestants... paid in black-market zoo animals" David Letterman |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | THE BRITISH ARE COMING! $800: It took The Animals less than 30 minutes to record this 1964 hit about a certain place in New Orleans "The House Of The Rising Sun" |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | MIXED GREENS $800: The most expensive of these animals ever sold at a public auction was the Green Monkey, bringing $16 mil. in 2006 horse |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) A mythic figure in Australia is the person with this job of driving animals across vast distances; he was expected to move sheep 6 miles a day, which may not seem like much, until you try it drover |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | "MIS"QUOTES $600: The Animals sang, "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh, Lord, please don't let me be" this misunderstood |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: A group of newborn animals, or to toss trash on the ground litter |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1200: His brothers dipped his coat in goat's blood to make his father Jacob believe animals had devoured him Joseph |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $400: The Goliath this, from the family Scarabaeidae, is one of the heaviest insects, weighing nearly a quarter of a pound a beetle |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $800: This slowest mammal has a ground speed of about 6-8 feet per minute; it's a little faster in the trees a sloth |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Norway's Svalbard Islands.) Traveling distances as great as 25,000 miles gives the Arctic type of this the record for the longest migration of any bird a tern |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $1600: The giant Mekong type of this barbeled fish is one of the largest freshwater fish; one specimen was 9' long & 646 lbs. a catfish |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $2000: One of the world's deadliest animals is the sea wasp, a type of this with up to 60 tentacles; its venom can kill up to 60 people a jellyfish |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | HEY, U2! $600: We hope the band didn't behave like animals on this technically ambitious 1992 tour "Zoo TV" |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | "E"ASY SCIENCE? $800: A waterproof layer called the cuticle sometimes covers this outermost cellular layer of animals & plants epidermis |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | GEOLOGY $800: It's an area where bitumen seeps to the surface, sometimes trapping animals; there's one about 5 miles from us a tar pit |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | GOOD NEWS $1000: The Inuit were exempted from a 1986 worldwide ban on commercial hunting of these animals whales |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: 1856 saw the first import of these desert animals for use by the U.S. Army in the American Southwest camels |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Socks, who is owned by the Brickers in a book by Beverly Cleary a cat |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Olivia, who "Saves the Circus" & "Goes to Venice" a pig |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: Elmer: a patchwork, not a gray, one of these elephant |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Corduroy: a brown one, wearing green overalls a bear |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The title pooch of "Good Dog, Carl" is this breed named for a German place Rottweiler |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | JANE GOODALL $800: I made an exciting discovery: chimpanzees fashioning probes to fish termites from their nests; chimpanzees were making & using these, which anthropologists had seen earlier as behavior that separates man from all other animals tools |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $1000: It can be someone who embodies a certain quality or idea, or a term for attributing human qualities to animals or things personification |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SIGMOID & THE SEA MONSTERS $2000: Like many animals, fish have these slithery creatures as parasites; the cod type is S-shaped as an adult worms |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICANS $200: A flint spear point from an ancient Mexican civilization was found lodged between 2 ribs of one of these "woolly" animals mammoths |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | ANIMALS IN THE NEWS $400: In Chicago there was a 2010 summit regarding these bloodsucking insects that once took over U.N. headquarters bedbugs |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | ANIMALS IN THE NEWS $800: In 2011 New Yorkers followed the saga of a cobra missing from this zoo (& found right there 6 days later) the Bronx Zoo |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | ANIMALS IN THE NEWS $1200: Paul the "psychic" this sea creature intrigued World Cup fans in 2010 with his spot-on picks an octopus |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | ANIMALS IN THE NEWS $1600: Tumors infecting these marsupials of an Australian island-state were found to be a contagious cancer Tasmanian devils |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | ANIMALS IN THE NEWS $2000: In Sept. 2010 the FDA held hearings over approving genetically altered these fish for human consumption salmon |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OFFICIAL BRITISH ROYAL POSTS $800: Not the Master of the House, but the Master of the this is responsible for the sovereign's carriages & certain animals Horse |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $200: E.B. White:
"The Trumpet of the ____" Swan |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $400: A classic from 1940:
"Pat the ____" Bunny |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $600: A lesson on sharing:
"The Rainbow ____" Fish |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $800: Dr. Seuss tweaks the alphabet book tradition:
"On Beyond ____" Zebra |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | TITLE ANIMALS OF KIDS' BOOKS $1000: Arnold Lobel:
"Days with ____ and ____"
(2 different amphibians) Frog & Toad |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | CAIN & ABEL $800: In sacrifice to God Cain offered the "fruit of the ground"; Abel offered these animals sheep |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | GO BLUE! $200: The moans of these 150-ton animals allow them to communicate with each other 1,000 miles away the blue whale |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves eucalyptus |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The eastern gray kangaroo can cover 25 feet in a single leap, & they're widespread in this, the country's smallest state Tasmania |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) It's the world's largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don't find it as cute as zoo-goers might a wombat |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative a wallaby |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) This egg-laying mammal has no teeth with which to eat; its taxonomic name is Tachyglossidae, or "fast tongue" the echidna |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | EXTRAVAGANZA ELEGANZA $1000: He had more than 300 field animals in his private zoo at his San Simeon estate (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | SOUNDS ALL AROUND $2000: Small pieces of ice that can damage a ship are called these, as trapped air escaping during melting makes them sound like animals growlers |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Hippos & baboons were part of the first known one of these, though no "please don't feed the animals" hieroglyphics a zoo |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | OLD JOBS $800: Farriers & ostlers had occupations tending to these animals horses |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | BIOLO"G" $400: Organs found behind the head in certain aquatic animals & specialized for oxygen exchange gills |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $200: Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect the bee |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $400: If you're called un asino, you're either a fool, or this animal a donkey |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $600: That's the scariest ragno, one of these, I've ever seen! Don't tell Signorina Muffet a spider |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $800: Un cane is this; ready for walkies? a dog |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $1000: It really gets me that una capra is one of these farm animals a goat |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | SAMI $1200: Many of the Sami make their living herding these animals of the family Cervidae reindeer |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | MY FAVORITE THINGS $200: "Rain drops on roses and whiskers on" these young animals kittens |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | ANIMAL PADS $2000: These animals come home to a byre cows |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | WEBSITES $800: kidsplanet.org has fact sheets about at-risk animals, like the mountain gorilla, classed as this 2-word term endangered species |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | CUTE & CUDDLY $1600: A San Diego mom invented these folding plush animals that you can also lay your head on to sleep a Pillow Pet |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SUMMER GAMES $1000: In one of these "hunts" named for the behavior of certain animals, you & your friends compete to gather items on a list a scavenger hunt |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | "H" IS FOR HOBBY $1200: If you're getting ready for some dressage at an equestrian event, you're probably into these animals horses |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | DAS KAPITALISTS $1200: In 1922 Haribo founder Hans Riegel made his first candies in the shape of these animals bears |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $200: The longest teeth in the animal world are these on one of the largest animals the tusks |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | NEW GROUP TERMS FOR ANIMALS? $200: An "explosion of" these insects that feed on cellulose & lignin, key ingredients in all wood & wood products termites |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | NEW GROUP TERMS FOR ANIMALS? $400: A "squeeze of" these snakes; the reticulated ones of southeast Asia can grow 30 feet long pythons |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | NEW GROUP TERMS FOR ANIMALS? $600: A "stench of" these, be they spotted, hog-nosed or striped skunks |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | NEW GROUP TERMS FOR ANIMALS? $800: A "panic of" these Scandinavian rodents, infamous for cliff-diving (or falling) lemmings |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | NEW GROUP TERMS FOR ANIMALS? $1000: An "army of" these African mammals, aka earth pigs. that catch ants with their 12-inch tongues aardvarks |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $800: They changed a bit in illustrations & movies, but the library has this author's son's original animals, including a bear A.A. Milne |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | AMAZING ANIMALS $200: The biggest hunting parties in the animal kingdom are by these ants that can be over 200,000 strong army ants |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | AMAZING ANIMALS $400: The heaviest tree dwellers on earth are these animals of Sumatra & Borneo that can weigh up to 300 pounds orangutans |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | AMAZING ANIMALS $600: This shark, named for its size, has thousands of teeth, but each is just 3 millimeters long, hence its not quite fearsome jaws a whale shark |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | AMAZING ANIMALS $800: More than 140 species of these reef makers all spawn at the same time in the world's largest event of its kind coral |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | AMAZING ANIMALS $1000: Found throughout North America, the whistling type of this has the most feathers of any bird, over 25,000 swans |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | SCIENTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Russian's work on gastrointestinal secretions in animals earned him a Nobel prize Pavlov |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | "TEA" PARTY $400: A set of draft animals a team |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LITERARY TITLE ANIMALS $200: William Kotzwinkle's "The ____ Went Over the Mountain" Bear |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LITERARY TITLE ANIMALS $400: Bob Hartman & Tim Raglin turned things around & gave us "The ____ Who Cried Boy" Wolf |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LITERARY TITLE ANIMALS $600: Dr. Seuss prescribed "____ in Socks" Fox |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LITERARY TITLE ANIMALS $800: Julie Mammano "horned" in on the kids' market with "____ Who Surf" Rhinos |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | LITERARY TITLE ANIMALS $1000: Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Man Booker Prize with "The White ____" Tiger |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS $1000: Brer Bear is one of the animals in his "Uncle Remus" stories Joel Chandler Harris |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | THE ENVIRONMENT $200: The Florida wild black type of this carnivore is down to about 3,000 animals & needs its habitat protected a bear |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OF THE SQUIRRELS $2000: Squirrels don't just eat nuts--the diet of some species includes lagomorphs, these animals rabbits |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | 19th CENTURY SCIENCE $600: In 1881 he immunized farm animals from anthrax in Pouilly-le-Fort, on the outskirts of Paris Pasteur |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1600: The plants & animals of a given region are known by these 2 5-letter words flora & fauna |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | OF ORDER $400: Animals, from slowest to fastest:
cheetah,
donkey,
peregrine falcon donkey, cheetah, peregrine falcon |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | THE RHINOCEROS $800: Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, rhinos are the second-largest land animals, second only to these elephants |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | THE RHINOCEROS $1600: With their numbers dropping sharply in recent years, the rhino is on this "List" that tracks animals near extinction the Endangered Species List |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | EXTREME ANIMALS $200: The Antarctic fur variety of this animal has the longest whiskers of any animal, up to about 20 inches long a seal |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | EXTREME ANIMALS $400: Able to speak & learn human language, the most talkative bird is the African gray this the parrot |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | EXTREME ANIMALS $600: Humans each have one of these, also called the backbone; hedgehogs are covered with them a spine |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | EXTREME ANIMALS $800: One of the slowest & sleepiest animals is the 3-toed species of this mammal that can sleep 16 hours a day the sloth |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | EXTREME ANIMALS $1000: In the greatest mass egg laying, 500,000 of these sea creatures come ashore in Northeast India to nest sea turtles |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Pongo & Missis:
This breed that lives with Mr. & Mrs. Dearly Dalmatians |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Aslan:
This majestic creature in Narnia a lion |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1200: Stellaluna:
The fruit type of this mammal a bat |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi:
This creature that saves his family a mongoose |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $2000: Mr. Jeremy Fisher:
This critter, living at the edge of a pond in a Beatrix Potter tale a frog |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $1000: To play Hawkeye in this movie, Daniel Day-Lewis learned to track animals, build canoes & fire muskets The Last of the Mohicans |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | "Y" ASK $200: In parts of Asia these pack animals are known as hairy cattle yaks |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Locomotives built for the Panama Canal were called these; they took jobs from hybrid animals that towed barges elsewhere mules |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $400: Taurophobia bulls |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $800: Herpetophobia reptiles (or snakes) |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $1600: Vermiphobia worms |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $2,000 (Daily Double): Hippophobia (don't say hippos) horses |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $2000: Ailurophobia cats |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $200: Barack's Andean pack animals Obama's llamas |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands by a sculpture.) In a Native American origin story of this fish, two animals steal a baby of the Sockeye people. The Sockeye find the baby in a river, which becomes their home salmon |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | MUSICAL LODGINGS $400: The Animals said this place was "the ruin of many a poor boy" the House of the Rising Sun |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | I'M DRIVING $800: It can mean a person who drives 2 or more draft animals, or a union truck driver a teamster |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | NOW THAT'S COMEDY $1200: Woody Allen:
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live" one of these toy animals "in my crib" a teddy bear |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL GREAT MIGRATIONS $2000: A female covers herself with secretions to prep for the migration of the bats called flying these animals the flying fox |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | DAFFYNITIONS $800: Animals that feed on others, or what you'll see from the top of the Eiffel Tower a parasite/Paris sight |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | FOUND IN MONGOLIA $200: Mongolia's annual Naadam festival includes archery, wrestling & the racing of these animals horses |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | ANTARCTIC WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew floats near a floe in Antarctica.) This seal here--the only type that eats warm-blooded animals--is named after a big cat due to the dark spots on its coat the leopard seal |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | OF ARK $1600: According to popular legend & a hit song by the Irish Rovers, these animals frolicked & didn't make it onto Noah's Ark unicorns |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | 10-12 YEARS $400: Rat & monkey are just 2 of the animals in this most populous country's 12-year zodiac cycle China |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | AM I BLUE? $1000: One of the loudest animals on earth is the blue type of this creature; it can be heard over 500 miles away a whale |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $600: 2005:
4 animals from the New York City zoo end up on an African island Madagascar |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | HERE'S A "QUARTER" $600: The AQHA helps locate trainers for these animals, the "QH" in its name a quarterhorse |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $400: ...of animals on exhibit at the L.A. Zoo a zebra |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | POLITICAL ANIMALS $400: In July 2009 Sarah Palin said she didn't want to accept this status of late-term ineffectiveness, so bye-bye lame duck |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | POLITICAL ANIMALS $800: A "dog" this is something only canines can hear; politically, it's a subtle signal to one's base a whistle |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | POLITICAL ANIMALS $1200: They're supposedly untouchable programs; in 2009 Washington Gov. Gregoire said it's time to put them out to pasture sacred cows |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | POLITICAL ANIMALS $1600: Someone too liberal for his party may be dubbed a RINO, short for this "in name only" Republican |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | POLITICAL ANIMALS $2000: A candidate put forward to ease the way for another candidate is called a "stalking" this horse |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | GODS AMONG US $400: A goddess of flowers, or all of a region's flowers & other vegetation Flora |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | WHEN "GH" SOUNDS LIKE F $600: This long, narrow receptacle holds food for animals a trough |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | SCENE & HERD $400: All the animals join the "Circle Of Life" to see the baby cub Simba in this animated film from 1994 The Lion King |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This title M.D. is taught to communicate with animals by his pet parrot, Polynesia Dr. Dolittle |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | AskOxford.com $800: AskOxford.com says the most commonly cited collective term for these animals is a clowder cats |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This French composer's "The Carnival of the Animals" was written to make fun of some friends Saint-Saëns |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | OTHER 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In 2010 American Humane celebrates "Be" this "to Animals Week" from May 2 to 8 Kind |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | MUSICAL WORDS $200: It's a bony growth on certain animals & an instrument that really blows a horn |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $400: "The Very Hungry ____" Caterpillar |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $800: "If You Give a ____ a Cookie" Mouse |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $1200: "Make Way for ____" Ducklings |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $1600: "Harry the Dirty ____" Dog |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $2000: "Is Your Momma a ____?" Llama |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | OF "OZ" $1000: The name of these single-celled organisms is from the Greek for "first animals" protozoa |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: Passerines are perching types of these animals birds |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: Vaccine also means "pertaining to or derived from" these animals cows |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | YES, DEER $200: Deers are the only animals with bones called these; in most species, only the males have them antlers |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | ANIMALS IN MOVIES? $400: This 2002 movie starred Eminem as Rabbit 8 Mile |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | ANIMALS IN MOVIES? $800: He played Gator McKlusky in "White Lightning" as well as in "Gator" Burt Reynolds |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | A PRAYER TO BE NAMED LATER $1,000 (Daily Double): A prayer of this saint included the line "Who am I, worm of the Earth..."; always with the animals St. Francis of Assisi |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | ANIMALS IN MOVIES? $1200: In this film Denzel Washington is a '40s detective whose muscle is named Mouse Devil in a Blue Dress |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | ANIMALS IN MOVIES? $1600: Jon Cryer's aquatic name in "Pretty in Pink" Duckie |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | ANIMALS IN MOVIES? $2000: Tim Matheson's aquatic name in "Animal House" Otter |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $400: When a snake sticks out its tongue, it's not tasting but using this sense smell |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $800: Cats have tapetum lucidum membranes in this body part, so they have 2 chances to catch photons their eyes |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $1200: Rats have poor vision but can enhance their perception by using these, also called vibrissae whiskers |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $1600: Some moths are able to detect chemical love signals called these up to 7 miles away pheromones |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | ABLE ANIMALS $2000: This fish seen here has a rod & bait on top of its head to lure & catch prey an anglerfish |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FARM AID $400: It's not a gal's intent on match.com; this 9-letter word refers to the science of raising animals husbandry |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FARM AID $2000: Also found on a racetrack, this enclosure is a place to exercise animals a paddock |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | "TU" MUCH $1600: Mentioned over & over in a popular Christmas song, these animals take their name from their call, not from a reptile turtledoves |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $800: In the scientific classification of animals, it's Chordata for a domesticated dog phylum |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | INTERNATIONAL NAMES $400: As a boy Bolivia's president Evo Morales herded these pack animals llamas |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | TWILIGHT: THE NOVEL $400: From Jacob Black, Bella learns that according to legend, the Quileute Indians are descended from these animals wolves |
