#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | FROM RAGS TO RICHES $1200: In April 2019 merriam-webster.com made this 6-letter synonym of "edit" one of its words of the week redact |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | APRIL WORDS $200: Expected number of shots on a golf hole par |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | APRIL WORDS $400: Bucket equivalent pail |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | APRIL WORDS $600: 22/7, approximately pi |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | APRIL WORDS $800: Wolf's home lair |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | APRIL WORDS $1000: Oddly, Handel's "Water Music" has a section called this, heard here air |
#6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $2000: We'll be cruel & ask for the first word in the first line of "The Waste Land" April |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $1000: (Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) At 7:22 on the morning of April 15, 1865, President Lincoln died in this small bedroom; a prayer was said, & then, according to tradition, Edwin Stanton uttered these six famous words "Now he belongs to the ages" |
#5485, aired 2008-06-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The 2 months that fit the category March & April |
#4973, aired 2006-04-05 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: April brings the National Safety Week for these places--uh-oh, that swing's looking rusty playgrounds |
#4924, aired 2006-01-26 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Marlon Brando & Doris Day were born on the same day, April 3, 1924, making them exact these contemporaries |
#4878, aired 2005-11-23 | 1945 $800: "I have a terrific headache" were reportedly his final words, spoken on April 12 FDR |
#4774, aired 2005-05-12 | BACK WORDS $2000: These muscles of the upper back are named for their particular quadrilateral shape the rhomboid muscles (trapezius accepted) |
#4404, aired 2003-10-30 | MISSION CONTROL $400: (Video of Cheryl at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) "Houston, we've had a problem" were the words this mission radioed back to Mission Control, April 13, 1970 Apollo 13 |
#4056, aired 2002-04-01 | IT HAPPENED ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY $800: This actress was born on April 1, 1938, we doubt her first words were "Love is never having to say you're sorry" Ali MacGraw |
#4012, aired 2002-01-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew on a riverboat.) This title "Man" in a Melville story takes in gullible riverboat passengers on April Fool's Day The Confidence-Man |
#1991, aired 1993-04-12 | IN OTHER WORDS... $300: April's birthstone yet to be cut a diamond in the rough |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: The 4th month's precipitations elicit the 5th month's blooms April showers bring May flowers |
#485, aired 1986-10-17 | WORDS OF THE PAST $200: "Fopdoodle", "fonkin" & "poop-noddy" describe this type of person celebrated on April 1st a fool |
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