#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $1600: Tea made from this spice, also called Indian saffron, is said to have anti-inflammatory properties & may also boost immunity turmeric |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $400: In Italian cuisine, it's cold food you eat at the start of a meal antipasto |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $800: Carly Simon had a hit song about this feeling of excitement anticipation |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $1200: It's the type of missile used against missiles in flight anti-ballistic |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $1600: It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes antiquarian |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $2000: Term for two points on Earth such as the poles or such as Spain & New Zealand antipodes |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1850s this state was "Bleeding" as pro- & anti-slavery forces met up in a preview of the Civil War Kansas |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $400: In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston (Frederick) Douglass |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $200: Enacted in 1890, the U.S. govt.'s first law of this kind was named for Ohio senator John Sherman anti-trust |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $400: In 1130 Pietro Pierleoni became Anacletus II, an "anti" this Pope |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $600: Giant coastal cliffs typify the South Pacific's Antipodes Islands, an outlying group belonging to this nation New Zealand |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $800: It's a protagonist who lacks the typical qualities of great courage or morality antihero |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | ANTI UP $1000: If electrons ever meet these, their antimatter counterparts, the 2 "annihilate" each other, releasing a lot of energy positrons |
#7800, aired 2018-07-06 | WRITERS ON SPORTS $200: In 1996 Jim Murray said it was up to Shaq & Olajuwon to stop this guy; short of that, "an anti-aircraft battery" Michael Jordan |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | "DUM" IT UP $1200: The World Trade Organization has an anti-this agreement dumping |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | BOMB $200: In 1970 anti-war radicals attempted to blow up a U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center at this college in Madison the University of Wisconsin |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $400: Add a letter to "anti" to get this word for a shenanigan antic |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $800: "Antithetical" means directly this opposite |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $1200: Lanacane cream is antipruritic, meaning it prevents this itchiness |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $1600: "Anti" word for the type of conclusion you'd have if the "1812 Overture" ended with a tune on the pennywhistle anticlimactic |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $2000: In medicine an anticlotting agent may also be called this "anti-" word an anticoagulant |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: (Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slavery novelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and "fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
#5003, aired 2006-05-17 | TECHWORD MASH-UP $800: The product "McAfee Anti-" this 7-letter mashed-up word keeps prying eyes out of your computer spyware |
#4247, aired 2003-02-04 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: Looking for a good reelection issue in 1950, this Wisconsin senator took up anti-Communism on the advice of friends Joseph McCarthy |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | POLITICALLY CORRECT MUSICALS? $1200: Ms. Oakley gives up her rifle & becomes an anti-gun activist (Charlton Heston hates the new show) Annie Get Your Gun |
#4003, aired 2002-01-16 | "ANTI" UP $200: Many cars these days come equipped with this sophisticated stopping device anti-lock brakes |
#4003, aired 2002-01-16 | "ANTI" UP $400: They're y-shaped protein molecules produced by B cells as a primary immune defense antibodies |
#4003, aired 2002-01-16 | "ANTI" UP $600: Pomegranates are rich in these substances that will help keep you young (& rust-free) antioxidants |
#4003, aired 2002-01-16 | "ANTI" UP $800: It was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Syria & home to Monty Python's holy hand grenade Antioch |
#4003, aired 2002-01-16 | "ANTI" UP $1000: From the Latin for "of opposite feelings", it's a natural repugnance or aversion antipathy |
#2488, aired 1995-05-31 | HISTORIC MASSACRES $600: Samuel Adams used this March 5, 1770 incident to stir up anti-British feelings in the colonies the Boston Massacre |
#1833, aired 1992-07-15 | ECONOMICS $400: Named for a video game, this anti-takeover defense has the target company trying to gobble up the acquirer the Pac-Man defense |
#605, aired 1987-04-03 | SODA POP QUIZ $500: "Takes the 'ouch' out of 'grouch'" was claim of this soda once sold as "anti-acid" hangover remedy 7-Up |