| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda the Capitol building |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Brutalism, popularized by Le Corbusier, refers to buildings made primarily of this material, like Boston's City Hall concrete |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it I.M. Pei |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Frank Lloyd Wright worked for 5 years with the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler & this "father of skyscrapers", leaving in 1893 Sullivan |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: An immigrant from Austria & from the "N"OWLEDGE category, he helped define midcentury California with modernist buildings Richard Neutra |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | PLATFORMING $800: In carmaking a platform is the basic chassis & architecture; the Nissan 370Z & this luxe brand's QX70 used the same one Infiniti |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $1200: Union Terminal is a great example of Art Deco architecture in this Ohio city, as is the Taft Theater Cincinnati |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $600: 4,500 years old, its royal headdress of limestone makes it the finest in noseless architecture! the Sphinx |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | RIBS $400: In architecture, a ribbed ceiling with arches is called one of these, like a room in a bank a vault |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $2000: High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark the Centre Pompidou |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | FRANK GEHRY $2000: In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as "the Nobel of Architecture" the Pritzker Prize |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $800: Take classes like "Environmental Design" & "Regenerative Building" at Yale's School of this Architecture |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know Jack the nave |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: The Philadelphia Museum of Art was designed as a vast temple in this style inspired by antiquity neoclassicism |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1200: This low wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation a parapet |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1600: Along with Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian & composite, it's the 5th of the orders in ancient architecture Doric |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $2000: The construction technique of vertical posts & crosspieces is called "post & lintel" or "post &" this beam |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | A TRIP TO MUMBAI $1200: Seen here, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway from 1888 is an example of this kind of Gothic Revival architecture, named for a queen a Victorian |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | EUROPEAN VACATION $1000: Go face to face with some Art Nouveau architecture in this world capital in Latvia Riga |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $600: This gloomy architecture style is known for using flying buttresses Gothic |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TAKE A TOUR $200: An architecture tour of this city includes the Tribune Tower & the Wrigley Building Chicago |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $1000: Included in a set of stamps celebrating American architecture was this Pennsylvania house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED COLLEGE SUBJECTS $200: Design for living (& working):
REACT THRU ICE architecture |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | BAROQUE $600: This 17th century Italian painter & sculptor also wrote comedies & oh yeah, did some Vatican City architecture Bernini |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | FIVE CHANCES $2000: This ornamental design used in heraldry & architecture comes from Latin for "five" & "leaf" a cinquefoil |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $300: The Tower of London had one of these defensive fortifications, originally filled with water from the Thames a moat |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $600: Seen here, flying buttresses helped cathedrals like this one in Paris soar to new heights the Notre-Dame |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $900: It sounds like a room filled with video games, but it's actually a series of arches standing side by side an arcade |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $1200: "G" is for this monstrous decoration used as a waterspout on castles of yore a gargoyle |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $1500: Completed in the 14th century, the largest baptistery in Italy resides in this city; fittingly, it leans at a slight angle Pisa |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ECOLOGY $200 (Daily Double): savetheelephants.org says elephants are important as this type of "species" named for a crucial bit of architecture keystone |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $200: Known for its art & architecture, the Gupta Dynasty ruled much of this 5-letter country from the 4th to 6th century India |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE EARLY 1800s $1000: The French style in fashion, architecture & even desks was this, named for the type of vast political unit Napoleon built Empire |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL $800: In 2022 Diébédo Francis Kéré became the first Black winner of this architecture prize in its 43-year history the Pritzker Prize |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | D.C. TOURISM $800: Begun in 1938, his D.C. memorial is in the Roman style, in keeping with his love of classical architecture (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1000: Known for shopping & architecture, this Edinburgh street was named for two sons of King George III Princes Street |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | COURSE SYLLABLES $400: 4 syllables:
This course on the art & technique of building & design architecture |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $200: Architect of lyrics Hammerstein & man of architecture Niemeyer Oscar |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | TWENTY QUESTIONS $600: Traditionally, there are 20 grooved channels in a column of this oldest & simplest order of classical architecture Doric |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $400: At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color" The Rainbow |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school Illinois Institute of Technology |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $2000: Baroque revival architecture is typified by London's criminal courts building called the "Old" this (it was New in 1907) Bailey |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | ARCHITECTS $1600: Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in this, his native country, is a landmark of modern architecture Brazil |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Among Eliel Saarinen's prominent works is the railway station in this capital Helsinki |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $800: The Queen's this small house of worship is a masterpiece of British Palladian architecture a chapel |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | WINDOWS & DOORS $800: The name of this window seen here derives from architecture not geography a bay window |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $1600: In 1919 Walter Gropius became the head of this school of architecture based in Weimar Bauhaus |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | 3 O's $2000: This ornate style of art & architecture originated in France in the early 1700s Rococo |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $1200: This sleek style is better known in architecture, but was used in painting, as in Tamara de Lempicka's 1929 self portrait art deco |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | 1930s AMERICA $1000: In 1937 his theories on organic architecture came together beautifully with the completion of the Fallingwater house Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | CHINESE HISTORY $800: More than just big on vases, this ruling dynasty really elevated the architecture of the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City the Ming Dynasty |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $400: The firm of Albert Kahn, architect of choice for Henry Ford, is still designing from its headquarters in this city Detroit |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $800: Pier Luigi Nervi innovated the use of steel-reinforced this material for buildings, & he even built boats from it concrete |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $1200: Travertine stone reflecting the Los Angeles sunlight is a feature of this art "Center" named for an oil tycoon the Getty |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $1600: Louis Sullivan was a student at this school now in Cambridge, home of America's first architecture school MIT |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $2000: Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York was designed by these father & son Finnish architects, Eliel & Eero Saarinen |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | DOUBLE LETTER X2 $1000: As a verb, it means to support; in architecture, it's an external prop made to steady a structure buttress |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser a pyramid |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Martha's Vineyard is home to several of these cottages named for a sweet holiday treat gingerbread |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: A style popular in the late 1800s adds "-esque" to this word for a palatial French home a chateau |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: It's the type of column from antiquity seen here; we'll help a little by saying it doesn't start with a vowel Doric |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: We'll be frank--this architect designed Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation art Museum; as it turns out, he'll be Frank Frank Gehry |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $400: Around 1793 amateur architect William Thornton won the design competition for this domed D.C. edifice the Capitol Building |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $800: In the 1880s Richard Hunt designed the pedestal for this 305-foot-tall monument in New York City the Statue of Liberty |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $1200: One of Frederick John Kiesler's last works was the Shrine of the Book, completed in 1965 in this country Israel |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Bernini meant for his design of the colonnades in front of this basilica to represent the encircling arms of the church St. Peter's |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $2000: Not black eyeliner but stained-glass windows & pointed arches exemplify this architectural style begun around 1130 Gothic |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | REQUIEM FOR A SKYLINE $600 (Daily Double): Northwestern University's old Prentice Women's Hospital, an example of Brutalist architecture, was demoed in 2013-2014 in this big city Chicago |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $400: In July & August in ancient Rome, a piscina, one of these, might have proved quite popular a pool |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $800: In ancient Greece, an agalma was a work of art dedicated to one of these a god |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $1200: The Library of Celsus at Ephesus had three big windows to let light into this alliterative space that the British Museum also has a reading room |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $1600: From words meaning "city of the dead", it was a large cemetery in ancient Greece Necropolis |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Similar to a Roman circus, this was an ancient Greek racecourse for horses & chariots a hippodrome |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Tiny houses, usually 400 square feet or less, often have one of these open upper spaces for the bed a loft |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Connecting buildings or parts of a house, this covered passage, open on the sides, is so named because it allows wind to pass through a breezeway |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Vital to holding up an arch is this block, top & center, that's placed last a keystone |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Renewed interest in the buildings of ancient Rome and Greece shows in this style of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Neoclassical |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): This British style of architecture was ushered in beginning with the reign of Henry VII Tudor |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $400: Julia Morgan designed this 68,500-square-foot home in San Simeon, California in the Mediterranean Revival style Hearst Castle |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $800: It's the iconic piece of furniture seen here an Eames chair |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Residenzplats in Salzburg, Austria.) Salzburg's Residenzplats has one of the largest Baroque fountains outside of Italy; the upper section is a replica of this Baroque master's Triton Fountain in Rome Bernini |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1600: Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage the organ |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $2000: This Boston-born architect designed the Massachusetts State House & from 1818 to 1829 served as architect of the U.S. Capitol Bulfinch |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TAKING A VOWEL OF SILENCE $1000: I: In this type of school, like UC Berkeley's Haas business |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: In 1992 architect Alvaro Siza won this, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture the Pritzker Prize |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | NAMES IN POLITICS $800: This last name of Illinois Governor J.B. is on a prestigious architecture prize his family endowed Pritzker |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Kids know it as a place to go play video games, but it's also a term for a kind of gallery that features arches an arcade |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Doric & Ionic are types of this basic support structure a column |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The Arc de Triomphe was designed so that 12 avenues radiate out, forming une étoile, this luminous body a star |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a Hong Kong building on the monitor.) With feng shui in mind, some buildings in Hong Kong are designed with holes in the structures that are considered gates for these mythical serpents as they travel down from the mountains & out towards the sea dragons |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Cliff May, raised on this type of homestead, developed the same-named style of 1-story, light-filled home ranch |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CITY ADJECTIVES $800: "C"oming from an ancient Peloponnesian city, like an order of architecture Corinthian |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $400: When entering a Japanese house, you traditionally leave these paired items in the genkan near the door shoes |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1200: Former Yankee catcher Jorge could tell you this Spanish word means "inn" posada |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1600: Isfahan in this country is renowned for its religious architecture, like the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque Iran |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $2000: Lukovitsa is the Russian name for this vegetable-shaped style of tower dome onion |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $25,000 (Daily Double): In Andalusia Arabic calligraphy represents this style named for medieval visitors from Africa Moorish |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $400: Tours of Norwich Castle include this place of incarceration, complete with torture instruments dungeon |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $800: A chandler was a castle's store room; its name is directly related to these that were stored there candles |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $1200: A tiltyard was a space where knights practiced their riding while using this weapon, basically the spear 2.0 lance |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $1600: From the Italian "scarpa" or slope, it was a steep slope in front of a castle to slow an attacking enemy escarpment |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): 4-letter name for the innermost & strongest building near the center of a castle the keep |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $200: A campanile is a usually freestanding one of these housing a bell a tower |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: From the Latin for "four corners", it's a rectangular courtyard enclosed by buildings quad |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $600: The horseshoe or keyhole type of this curved span above an opening is associated with Islamic architecture an arch |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: "Drop" everything & give us this name for the portion of a roof that extends out over a supporting wall an eaves |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: This textured plaster used in ancient Greece & Aztec Mexico may not provide much insulation but is a great fire resister stucco |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the Church on Spilled blood in St. Petersburg, Russia.) On the spot where his father was assassinated, Tsar Alexander III built the Church on Spilled Blood; its architecture reflects Russian nationalism & imitates this Moscow cathedral, the country's most famous St. Basil's |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | MAKE IT LOOK GOOD $2000: An impressive facade was the goal of the Old West architecture style called this alliterative type of phony front a false front |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | A VISIT TO SKANSEN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Skansen Open-Air Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.) Founded in 1891, Skansen Open-Air Museum was the first of a movement to preserve traditional architecture, like the farmhouse with this turf roof, widely used since the time of the Vikings sod |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: An example of Byzantine architecture is a museum also called Ayasofya in this city Istanbul |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: A fanlight isn't a fixture with rotating blades--it's one of these a window |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: A synonym for "merciless" or "cruel", followed by "-ism", gets you this style that emphasizes austerity Brutalism |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: 4-letter word for an office plan without walls; Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's HQ is the largest one in the world open |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This is the branch of architecture that would utilize topiary most often landscape architecture |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: It's fitting that Latin for "sleep" gives us the name of these windows, frequently used in bedrooms dormer windows |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Introduced in 1925, this simplified style is also known as jazz moderne Art Deco |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Kelly shows a model of classical architecture on the monitor.) Classical architecture emphasized the column & a type of gable which linguists believe got this name from a dialectal garbling of "pyramid" pediment |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TROPHY HUNTER $800: The Pritzker Prize medal, given for excellence in this field, is based on the designs of Louis Sullivan architecture |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $1600: Adjective for the architecture of that era in a nation's history when it was under another land's control colonial |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | DRUM SCHTICK $800: In architecture, a drum is any of the cylindrical stone blocks that make up one of these a column |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SEEN ON MY WALK TODAY $200: Such a unique building; with its faux medieval architecture, it must be the style called this revival Gothic |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | "PIN"-TEREST $1200: In architecture a spire or buttress isn't topped with an apex or an acme but this synonym a pinnacle |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DESIGN ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (I'm Ryan Field from New York's ABC-7.) A collaboration involving architecture; engineer & landscape, garden & lighting design, this is Manhattan's newest park the High Line |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue in this city is the world's tallest all-residential building in our hemisphere New York City |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Built between the 1100s & 1300s, Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is a leading example of this style of architecture gothic |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the early 1950s Louis Kahn designed his first important work: this Ivy League university's art gallery Yale |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of Doric, seen here, columns at Athens' temple of Athena Nike are in this order, named for a region in Asia Minor Ionic |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: It can be a simple country home, or a 7-square-mile complex like the ancient Roman one known as "Adriana" a villa |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ARCHITECTURE WORDS $400: From the French for "hut", these structures were herders' shelters in the Alps, but now are found all over chalets |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ARCHITECTURE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The vertical grooves of a column are referred to by this musical term fluting |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $800: Etruscans gave the world the Tuscan order of architecture, most like this one that uses simple & austere columns Doric |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | "ED"UCATION $1200: This style of architecture is named for Queen Victoria's son Edwardian |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: Bastions are semicircular towers projecting from the walls of these medieval strongholds castles |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: The ancients liked these structures, from the Greek for "to view" & "on both sides"; one in Tunisia dates from around 238 A.D. an amphitheater |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: In Toronto on April 2, 1975, Paul Mitchell put in the last piece of this building's antenna & did a jig 1,800' up CN Tower |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: It's a large, circular room with a domed ceiling, like the one at the Lehigh University library a rotunda |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 600s Muslim forces captured Jerusalem & by century's end, they had built this gold-topped shrine the Dome of the Rock |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE $400: The heart of Mycenaean palaces was the megaron, a great hall with a hearth & this royal furniture the throne |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE $1200: Perfect for a stroll around the agora in Athens was a stoa, this type of column-lined walkway a colonnade |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE $1600: The Romans added two new architectural orders to Ionic, Doric & Corinthian--Composite & the one named for this region Tuscany |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Underground passageways made movement easy in these Roman places with rooms like frigidariums & tepidariums baths |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $400: A memorial to Victoria's late husband, this venue opened in 1871 & is a leading live music performance space the Royal Albert Hall |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $800: In 1901 Queen Victoria died at Osborne House, built to royal specifications on this isle the Isle of Wight |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $1200: Home to the houses of Parliament, this palace was rebuilt in Gothic revival style after an earlier building burned in 1834 the Palace of Westminster |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $1600: These 3-letter gardens have some of the most notable iron & glass structures from the Victorian era the Kew Gardens |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE $2000: You can see why an 1892 building at the University of Liverpool inspired this term for a university other than Oxford or Cambridge red brick universities |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | JOBFUSCATION $2000: Miesian & Corbusian are adjectives used in this field architecture |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | THIRD TIME'S A "CHA"RM $1000: The 3 great examples of French Gothic architecture are the cathedrals of Amiens, Reims & this town Chartres |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | VIDEO GAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Impossible architecture is found in this "valley", a mobile game that shares a name with a place in Utah & Arizona Monument |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The flamboyant type of this medieval style of architecture features curves in the tracery that resemble flames gothic |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This uppermost part of the capital of a column shares its name with an ancient calculator an abacus |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Flat roofs & lots of glass were a trend around 1950, thus the alliterative term this period "modern" mid-century |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: In 1923 this Swiss mister with a French nom de architecture wrote, "A house is a machine for living in" Le Corbusier |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | ARCHITECTURE $3,000 (Daily Double): As seen here, vermiculated masonry features wandering grooves that resemble tracks of these creatures worms |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Casa Milà, also known as La Pedrera, "the quarry", is in this Spanish city known for its unusual architecture Barcelona |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The historic city of Sucre in this South American country is renowned for its mix of local and European architecture Bolivia |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $200: Chartres Cathedral is a prime example of this type of architecture Gothic |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $400: It's the triangular section of a wall at the end of a pitched roof; your house might have 7 gables |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows three different column illustrations on the monitor.) The ancient orders of architecture can be identified by different features: Doric is the simplest, while Ionic has twin scrolls called volutes; stylized acanthus leaves are found on this last Greek order Corinthian |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $800: The Blue Mosque has magnificent examples of these pictures made with inlaid stones or glass tiles mosaic |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $1000: This American architect designed the University of Minnesota's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum seen here Frank Gehry |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | TALK OF THE TOWN $1,000 (Daily Double): "Life on the Mississippi" says, "There is no architecture" in this city, "except in the cemeteries" New Orleans |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE CROWN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an arch on the monitor.) In architecture, the crown is the top part of an arch, including this central wedge-shaped piece the keystone |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: As architect Louis Sullivan wrote, Chicago's Masonic Temple "raised its head" 22 stories in 1892 & this word "came into use" skyscraper |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: Dry masonry is stonework or brickwork done without this binding agent made with cement mortar |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: The type of Victorian architecture seen here is named for this molasses cake & features ornate woodwork gingerbread |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: A $100 million one of these cottages in Gstaad is part of the divorce award to Mrs. Dmitry Rybolovlev a chalet |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $3,000 (Daily Double): The Latin for "ship" gives us the name for this central part of a church the nave |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 2007 winner Richard Rogers & 1998's Renzo Piano teamed up to design the Pompidou Centre in this city Paris |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1966 Jorn Utzon quit the opera house project designed for this city but today, that's his legacy Sydney |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Philip Johnson, the prize's very first winner in 1979, designed the Glass House in New Canaan in this state Connecticut |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LEGO $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lego Systems in Enfield, CT.) Popular sets from the building series include such landmarks as Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower & this World Heritage Site & masterpiece of Indian architecture the Taj Mahal |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $800: Take classes like "Ornament Theory and Design" & "Building Technology" at Yale's School of this architecture |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Moscow's "Seven Sisters" are 1940s buildings in the style named for this leader Stalin |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $800: John Lautner's Googies coffee shop in this metropolis lent its name to a style of futuristic architecture Los Angeles |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Jon Jerde honeymooned at Lake Como, inspiring his design for this Italian-themed Vegas hotel the Bellagio |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: The 2016 Victorian Architecture Medal went not to a 19th-century styled building, but to the Geelong Library in Victoria in this country Australia |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: A certain conquest made this style similar on both sides of the Channel, as in the churches of St.-Etienne & Ely the Norman Conquest |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $400: It was once an ornamental pavilion on the grounds of a bigger house; now it's where you gamble a casino |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Frank Lloyd Wright's pyramidal Tokyo Imperial Hotel reflected a revival named for this C. Am. culture big around 700 A.D. the Maya |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the '60s it was D.C.'s 1st mixed-use development & the only U.S. project by Rome Olympics architect Luigi Moretti Watergate |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: The name of this uppermost part of an entablature is from the Latin for "crow", for its resemblance to a crow's beak the cornice |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $6,400 (Daily Double): Of the 3 classical Greek architectural orders, this one named for a city is the most decorative Corinthian |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $200: Shigeru Ban, a pioneer in the use of cardboard, won 2014's Pritzker Prize in this field architecture |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | THAT JUST WON'T FLY $800: The "flying" this was a masonry structure found in Gothic architecture & had no wings a (flying) buttress |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: This architectural style of the High Middle Ages mostly seen in cathedrals developed from the Romanesque & Byzantine styles Gothic |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: A gambrel type of this has 2 pitches on each side, such as seen on a barn a roof |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: Covering 8 Nevada acres, it's the not very ancient pyramid seen here the Luxor |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: Terrazzo floors usually feature chips of this stone embedded into a base marble |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the only North American building designed by this Swiss architect Le Corbusier |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | WHAT'D I SAY? $200: Eero Saarinen:
"I think of" this field "as the total of man's man-made physical surroundings" architecture |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | ST. PAUL $1200: Paul's New Testament letters include 2 to these Greeks who gave their name to an order of classical architecture the Corinthians |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | PRAISE THE LLOYD $400: You could say he wrote the book on architecture, & we will; in 1939 he wrote "An Organic Architecture" Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $5,000 (Daily Double): One of the chief aims of this 1831 novel was to "inspire the nation with a love of its national architecture" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | THE I.T. GUY $600: He took the class at Princeton on C.A., short for this, the design of a computing system computer architecture |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | ALONG CAME JONES $2000: Unusual first name of the Jones who founded the English Classical School of Architecture Inigo |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Melbourne's Federation Square is fronted by a fabulous fractal this other F-word facade |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The domed U.S. Capitol consists of 2 wings branching off this circular central part the rotunda |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: The garden room is a highlight of this place West, Frank Lloyd Wright's home & studio in the Sonoran Desert Taliesin |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the 17th century this Italian designed the papal canopy at St. Peter's as well as St. Peter's Bernini |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: This material is typical of the International style & is dominant in the 1951 Corning Museum glass |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | THE PRESIDENT'S PLEASURE $600: He more than dabbled in architecture, designing Virginia's capitol building, among others Thomas Jefferson |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: In the 1870s Francois Hennebique pioneered the use of reinforced this in building construction concrete |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: Music students are among the users of the exhibition hall seen here in this country's Anhui Province China |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: An alteration of a French word for "frame", it's the frame holding the panes of a window or door a sash |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1600: This simplest form of vault consists of a single continuous arch a barrel vault |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: In the early 1500s, this country's Manueline architecture used nautical motifs like chains & ropes Portugal |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY $400: Before Roget stole, looted, purloined & pilfered this word, it was a Greek treasury house thesaurus |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY $800: The oldest & simplest order of classic Greek architecture Doric |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY $1200: Today a loge is a theater box, but the logeum was this part of a Greek theater the stage |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY $1600: A cubiculum wasn't a tiny Roman office space, it was one of these a bedroom |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE ACADEMY $2000: An example of the triumphal arch is that of the stern Emperor Septimius this, meaning "stern" Severus |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE 700 CLUB $400: In the Dewey Decimal System, books filed under the 720s cover this subject, including buildings & public structures architecture |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | TELL US WHAT HE'S WON! $2000: 1983:
I.M. Pei wins "the Nobel Prize of Architecture" the Pritzker |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | THOMAS, WRITE? $400: The success of "Far From the Madding Crowd" enabled him to give up architecture for writing Thomas Hardy |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $200: From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets & critics would speak an auditorium |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Consisting of a final cold pool, a frigidarium was the third & last chamber of one of these public buildings a bath |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $600: In a Roman villa, a cenatio was a formal one of these dining room |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: These water channels could be placed on high arches above ground or go through tunnels below aqueducts |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926 a shrine |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The demolition of this NYC train station in the early 1960s helped spur the city's preservationist movement Penn Station |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $800: John Howells & Raymond Hood won a 1922 contest to design this city's Tribune Tower; Eliel Saarinen Finnished second Chicago |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Said to gather all light & positive spirits, a sorin is the nine-ringed spire placed atop this type of shrine seen here a pagoda |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Lubeck's Marienkirche boasts that it has the world's highest brick ceiling that's this, meaning arched vaulted |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Oscar Niemeyer's first solo project was a 1941 plan for Pampulha in this country where he later designed the capital Brazil |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | TOMB SERVICE $400: (CNN correspondent Sumnima Udas delivers the clue.) Completed in 1570, Delhi's Humayun tomb inspired design of this other example of Mughal architecture built in Agra in the next century the Taj Mahal |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ALAS, POOR... $200: This order of classical architecture characterized by austere columns Doric |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | HO CHI MINH CITY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Built in the 1890s, Ho Chi Minh City's opera house is an outstanding example of the elegant architecture called French this French Colonial |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati building that lets you see all the curating going on is the U.S.A.'s first of these a woman designed a museum |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1,200 (Daily Double): Amiens Cathedral is an example of Rayonnant, a phase of this style of architecture that features radiant lines of tracery Gothic |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: A pilaster is one of these with a capital & base like free-standing ones, but rectangular & set into a wall a column |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Greene & Greene built classic California cottages with low, sloping roofs, known by this name from the Hindi bungalows |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: This covered walkway surrounding a court usually links a church to other buildings of a monastery the cloisters |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | COLLEGE ACTIVITIES $1000: "Naked Spaces: Architecture in Art from the Kinsey Institute Collection" was at this Midwestern school in 2013 Indiana University |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MIAMI NICE $1000: This 2-word 1920s style of architecture has a district named for it in South Beach art deco |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | POST MASTERS $1200: In the 1960s Robert Venturi pioneered the eclectic style of architecture called post-this postmodernism |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: Canals & Dutch architecture can still be seen in this city on the island of Java Jakarta |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Pendentives are used to place this vaulted circular roof atop a square room a dome |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $800: In a ribbed vault, the ribs provide support, or seem to, for this arachnid-sounding material between the ribs webbing |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: As in the home seen here, Desert Modernism thrived in the mid-20th century in this California desert city Palm Springs |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Recipients of the Pritzker Prize receive a medallion based on designs by this Chicagoan, the "Father of the Skyscraper" Louis Sullivan |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Inigo Jones restored St. Paul's cathedral from 1633 to 1642, before it burned & was rebuilt by this man Christopher Wren |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | "M"ISCELLANY $400: Habitat 67 in this North American city is a landmark in 20th century architecture Montreal, Canada |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | SCULPTURE $1200: In architecture, a column in the form of a man is called one of these, like a supportive Greek giant an atlas |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SWEET STUFF $600: A heavily ornamented style of architecture is named for this, often used to make "men" & "houses" gingerbread |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The caldarium, the tepidarium & the frigidarium were chambers in these, where olden Romans refreshed themselves the baths |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Virginia's Shirley Plantation has a "hanging" one of these that climbs 3 stories without any visible means of support a staircase |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This type of window that opens by means of a crank rhymes with a lower story of a building casement |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: After WWI he became director of the Grand Ducal art school in Weimar; in 1925 he moved the school to Dessau Walter Gropius |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange.) The six Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange facade are among the reasons the building is considered a masterpiece of this architectural style that drew inspiration from Greek & Roman models neoclassic |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | RIBS $400: In architecture a ribbed ceiling with arches is called one of these, like a room in a bank vaulted |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | U.S.A. $1600: With its Old World architecture, this California city is "The Danish Capital of America" Solvang |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | WHERE YA FROM? $2,000 (Daily Double): Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, he dreamed of moving to Chicago, with its soaring architecture Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 20 FOR DUMMIES $1000: "Architecture for Dummies" calls this NYC skyscraper an "Art Deco fantasy" that's complete with hubcaps & hood ornaments the Chrysler Building |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $400: 6-letter adjective for a home assembled from standard parts, or for the Beatles before they were successful prefab |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Yes, Clark, a pediment is a type of this triangular section of wall a gable |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Small posts called balusters support the horizontal rail that, logically, is called this a balustrade |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew does a demonstration with a piece of paper.) Paper can be used to illustrate an architectural concept; holding the edge doesn't inspire much confidence in its structural integrity, but curve it, & you get one of these projecting structures with a simple machine in its name a cantilever |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $5,000 (Daily Double): Cupolas are small domes, but can be pointy instead of dome-shaped when found on these mosque towers minarets |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO $800: The new complex on the site will be six office towers, three of them designed by winners of this 32-year-old architecture prize the Pritzker Prize |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | SUMMER SCHOOL AT YALE $600: "The Chinese House from Courtyard to City" was a course offered in 2010 by this department architecture |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $400: These overlapping pieces of material on roofs lent their name to a 19th century style of building shingles |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Known for his geodesic dome, he once designed a dome to cover all of Midtown Manhattan Buckminster Fuller |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: An obelisk is a type of this, from the Greek for "one stone" a monolith |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Owre House in Minneapolis is in this style that fits in with the flat plains landscape Prairie style |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | ARCHITECTURE $2,400 (Daily Double): This Washington, D.C. landmark was designed by Henry Bacon as a Greek temple with 36 Doric columns the Lincoln Memorial |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This style of home named for a Massachusetts peninsula features a gabled roof & a central chimney a Cape Cod |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: From 1938 to 1952 this Bauhaus creator headed Harvard's architecture department (Walter) Gropius |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Craftsman homes feature these on the porch, but they're square, not round as in ancient Greek temples columns |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This British architectural style began with the accession of Henry VII in the late 15th century Tudor |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) A cupola is the top structure of a dome; when the windows or walls are opened to illuminate the dome interior, it's this type of cupola, sharing its name with a certain portable light a lantern |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $1,800 (Daily Double): Not surprisingly, the first architecture dept. at a college was established at this Boston-area school in 1865 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | TEXTBOOKS $400: Henry A. Millon paired rococo & this other ornate style in the title of his architecture textbook baroque |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In 1932 he created the Taliesin fellowship for those wanting to learn organic architecture Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $400: At each end, a pitched roof has one of these triangles, from an Old English word meaning "fork" a gable |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This Greek order of columns was the first created & the only one that normally has no base a Doric |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The wheel-shaped windows found in Gothic cathedrals are known by this floral name a rose window |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: In 1851 Joseph Paxton designed this building for a London exhibition using a prefab iron frame & glass panels the Crystal Palace |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $400: An 80-foot-high aquarium pillar is in the lobby of the Domaquare Building in this German capital Berlin |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $800: Based on the home of a Russian fairy tale character, the cabin here weighs 13 tons & is near this city, formerly Leningrad St. Petersburg |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $1200: Niteroi's Museum of Contemporary Art overlooks Guanabara Bay in this country Brazil |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $1600: The 350-foot-tall Baiterek Tower, also known as the "Large Lollipop", can take a licking in Astana in this country Kazakhstan |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $2000: Opened in 2004, the $300-million Stata Center at M.I.T. was designed by this L.A.-based architect (Frank) Gehry |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $600: 4,500 years old, its royal headdress of limestone makes it the finest in noseless architecture! the Great Sphinx |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Spanish-architecture courtyard.) I'm in this Peruvian city, once the capital of an empire, & one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the western hemisphere Cuzco |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The "Bird's Nest" in this city won architecture's Lubetkin Prize Beijing |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BOND, ATOMIC BOND $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When sodium donates an electron to chlorine, it creates this type of stable bond that holds salt molecules together; the bond shares its name with an order of architecture an ionic bond |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $1600: High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark the Centre Pompidou |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $1600: "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions" (Coco) Chanel |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some column styles on the monitor.) Of the three Greek orders, Doric is the simplest, Ionic has spiral volutes, & this order decorated with Acanthus leaves is the most elaborate Corinthian |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Egypt's Old Cataract Hotel is an example of this architectural style named for a North African people the Moorish style |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a floor plan on the monitor.) In a cruciform church, the central part is called the nave; it ends in a recessed area that is usually vaulted called this the apse |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This word for a domed roof, often covering a rotunda, is from the Latin for "little cask" cupola |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a castle wall on the monitor.) The name of this defensive wall comes from words meaning "protect" & "chest"; it's still used as a protective barrier on bridges & balconies a parapet |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $800: Ted sets up Mosbius Designs, his own architecture firm, in the apartment he shares with Robin on this sitcom How I Met Your Mother |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | I'M FUNEMPLOYED $400: Architecture is too staid; I want to design these, like Nitro at Six Flags roller coasters |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | AROUND A GREEK TEMPLE $1,800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.) At the top of the column, you'll find this from the Latin for head; it's the most important element in distinguishing the orders of Greek architecture a capital |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | A PASSAGE TO INDIA $800: Check out this mausoleum complex in Agra, one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture the Taj Mahal |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $200: UNESCO lauded the art & architecture of Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas in this country Venezuela |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: nytimes.com says the Belle Epoque architecture & late-night cafes of this capital lure expat artists & tango lovers Buenos Aires |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotunda near Vicenza, Italy was a major influence on his design for Monticello Jefferson |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: The 3 orders of Ancient Greek column were Doric, Ionic & this ornate one named for a city Corinthian |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: From the Latin for "gate", it's often an entryway consisting of a roof supported by columns a portico |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: This "ice cold" part of an entablature fits in between the cornice & architrave frieze |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | ARCHITECTURE $2,800 (Daily Double): He designed the geodesic dome for the United States pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $1600: An architectural style is named for this French fine arts school that dropped architecture in 1968 the École des Beaux Arts |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | ARCHITECTURE $400: To us it's the space at the top of a house; in Ancient Greece it was an architectural order named for Athens' region an attic |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The simple 18th century British style named for this queen features red brick, not her lace Anne |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: The "glass skyscraper" architect Ludwig Mies added this, his mother's surname, to his own van der Rohe |
| #5451, aired 2008-04-28 | THIS & THAT $800: Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games an arcade |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Architecture's Pritzker Prize medal is based on designs by Louis Sullivan, "father of" this type of soaring building the skyscraper |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The replacement for this complex is set to include the Freedom Tower, which will rise to a height of 1,776 feet the World Trade Center |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Brutalism is a style originated by Le Corbusier that mainly uses big chunks of this material cement (or concrete) |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $800: According to one grisly legend, this czar blinded the architects of Moscow's St. Basil's Cathedral Ivan the Terrible |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This low wall around the edge of a castle roof was designed to protect soldiers from falling off a parapet |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $800: By the 400s B.C. the Greeks had perfected 3 orders of architecture: Ionic, Corinthian & this oldest one Doric |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A projecting ornament where the ribs of a vault ceiling meet, or a nickname for Bruce Springsteen the boss |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $800: A stupa, like the Great Stupa of Sanchi, India, is a hemispherical mound enshrining relics of this religion Buddhism |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Robert Mills, a Greek Revivalist architect, designed the U.S. Treasury building & this 555-foot-tall structure the Washington Monument |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This city's state capitol, built in 1788, is considered the USA's 1st building of the classical revival style Richmond, Virginia |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by this name, called his houses "machines for living in" Le Corbusier |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Berthold Lubetkin's designs for the London Zoo include a gorilla house & a pool for these flightless birds penguins |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Carlo Maderno is famed for his baroque facade for the Church of Santa Susanna in this world capital Rome |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: This architect of L.A.'s Disney Concert Hall called it "a strange kind of sailing ship sitting in a box" Frank Gehry |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the 1950s this Finnish-born architect designed the U.S. Embassy in Oslo (Eero) Saarinen |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Philip Johnson's Glass House may have been inspired by this German-born less-is-more man's Farnsworth House Mies van der Rohe |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | IT'S ALL ACADEMIC $400: Paul Rudolph, longtime head of Yale's School of this, designed the building that houses it Architecture |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A kite winder is the central of 3 winders that help make a 90-degree turn in a flight of these stairs |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This 6-letter part of a house is also called an eaves trough gutter |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: In the English bond style, these are laid in alternate courses of headers & stretchers bricks |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: From 1617 to 1642 everyone was keeping up with this Jones, surveyor of works to the British Crown Inigo |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARCHITECTURE $4,000 (Daily Double): The Coonley Estate & the Robie House are examples of this midwestern style created by Frank Lloyd Wright the Prairie Style |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | YOU GOT STYLE, HOMES $200: Imitating British architecture in the 1600s, this style became popular in the 1920s Tudor |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | STRUCTURES $800: Type of building that's the title of a 1981 book by New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger a skyscraper |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $200: The skating rink was an experiment, as the space had been a failure for retailers within this building complex Rockefeller Center |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $400: The 1924 Democratic National Convention went on for 14 days in the second incarnation of this building Madison Square Garden |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $600: This 1920s art deco skyscraper is decorated with chrome & radiator cap designs the Chrysler Building |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $800: Frank Lloyd Wright intended for visitors to begin at the top & move downward through this art museum the Guggenheim |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $1000: Daniel Burnham had to work with a triangular plot where Broadway, 5th & 23rd meet, & he came up with this building the Flatiron Building |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | "C"OLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Along with his wife Sarah, Peter, the founder of this New York "Union" of Art & Architecture, invented Jell-O Cooper |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $2000: Some distinguished figures in this field include Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown architecture |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In China, most of these Buddhist towers have 8 sides & an odd number of stories pagodas |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This style of architecture was introduced in 1144 with the completion of the Abbey of St.-Denis north of Paris Gothic |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: This type of arched ceiling can be barrel, groined or ribbed a vault ceiling |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This vertical support consists of a base, a shaft & a capital a column |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: His school in Dessau, Germany was designed as a set of transparent, free-flowing volumes Walter Gropius |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This U.S. president designed more than one home for himself--this is the one at Poplar Forest Jefferson |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This man who held up the heavens lent his name to a sculptural male figure used as a supporting column Atlas |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the set of Beauty and the Beast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.) The castle in "Beauty and the Beast" reimagines this architectural style that evolved from the Romanesque in the 12th century Gothic |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, he designed the Swiss Dormitory at Cite Universitaire in Paris Le Corbusier |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: The Kennedy Library was designed by this world-famous architect who gave it a soaring glass-enclosed pavilion (I.M.) Pei |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CHAMPS OF THE SQUARE CIRCLE $2000: This "Golden Boy" has an interest in architecture & told Interview magazine, "I really have a passion for designing" Oscar De La Hoya |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | 20th CENTURY ART $1600: For works using 3-dimensional colored materials, Archipenko combined the name of this art form with painting sculpture |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | COFFEE TABLE BOOKS $2000: "The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis" highlights the houses in this California city 114 miles from L.A. Palm Springs |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE $400: This capital's Vladislav Hall, in the Bohemian Renaissance style, was once Europe's largest enclosed secular space Prague |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE $800: The audience hall of Lubeck's Rathaus dates from 1754 to 1761, a superb example of this light, ornamental style Rococo |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE $1,200 (Daily Double): The vault of Rome's Il Jesu, built in the 1500s for this new society, led to fears it would cause echos the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE $1600: Based on the column type, it's a style of classical architecture; the Greeks had 3, Doric, Ionic & Corinthian order |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.) The Grand Bazaar, one of Tivoli's loveliest buildings, was designed in this exotic style, also known as Moresco Moorish |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Palladio used a temple facade for these Italian country houses, like the rotunda one of around 1560 villas |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The house seen here
is by Adolf Loos, who hated this, a word related to adorn, & wrote an essay against it ornament |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $1,200 (Daily Double): With help from feng shui, Norman Foster reinvented the office tower with a 1980s building in this then-colony Hong Kong |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: This medieval style exemplified here was weightier than Gothic, which followed it Romanesque |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Known for the Jewish Museum in Berlin, in 2003 he got the job of redesigning the World Trade Center site Daniel Libeskind |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | ANCIENT TIMES $1600: (Jeff Probst reports from Guatemala.) With a name meaning "rubber people", this first great Mexican tribe used stone in architecture & influenced the Mayans greatly the Olmecs |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANDREW JACKSON'S HERMITAGE $800: After a fire, Jackson turned the mansion into an example of the "revival" of this civilization's architecture Greek |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT STUFF $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, IL.) Wright said he tried to make furnishings like this type of architecture, which is interconnected like a living thing organic |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS $1200: The last name of Eliel, the Finn who wrote "The Search for Form in Art & Architecture"; his son was a famous architect, too Saarinen |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | 35 YEARS OF SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE $400: The 1930s art deco architecture of this Florida city with a 2-word name was featured in the December 1982 issue Miami Beach |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE $400: The Jet Age Building seen here is the hub for this transportation complex LAX |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE $800: This architect's Ennis-Brown House, seen here, was inspired by Mayan art, but has his signature art-glass windows (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE $1200: Yes, L.A. has a downtown, & it has the tallest building west of the Mississippi designed by this Asian-American I.M. Pei |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE $1600: Philip Johnson designed this church, home to televangelist Robert Schuller the Crystal Cathedral |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE $2000: The Aerospace Museum seen here was designed by this most famous L.A. architect Frank Gehry |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST $400: Paris's Ile de la Cite is home to this structure many consider the birthplace of Gothic architecture Notre Dame |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of Wright's Robie House in Chicago, IL.) Wright's Robie House is from this school of architecture whose horizontal lines imitate Midwestern terrain the Prairie School |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | HOUSES OF WORSHIP $1600: The seat of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, it's a great example of Gothic Revival architecture St. Patrick's Cathedral |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to receive this prize, often called architecture's highest honor the Pritzker |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF HERBERT HOOVER $1600: 1929 wasn't so hot for Hoover but it was for architecture; this Disney Hall designer was born on Feb. 28 (Frank) Gehry |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In 1932 this U.S. architect wrote, "No house should ever be on any hill... it should be of the hill" Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A pendentive is a curved support shaped like an inverted triangle that holds up this type of roof a dome |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ARCHITECTURE $600: From the Latin for "middle", it's the lowest balcony in a theater the mezzanine |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800: In 1675 Jules Hardouin-Mansart became architect to this king & began redesigning the Palace of Versailles Louis XIV |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: In a cross-shaped church, this intercepts the nave to form the arms of the cross the transept |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: Henry Bacon designed this Washington, D.C. landmark: a white marble Doric temple above a pool the Lincoln Memorial |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $800: Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of these & left it a city of marble bricks |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $1200: Tudor, ogee & horseshoe are different types of these; a state with many of them would be a keystone state arches |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A small campanile, hopefully batless belfry |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This 12th century style was revived in Europe in the 19th century & used for churches into the 20th century Gothic |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Wallace K. Harrison met with success designing this theater for Lincoln Center the Metropolitan Opera House |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) This railing system often seen on balconies includes a top rail, balusters, & sometimes a bottom rail a balustrade |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This early 20th century school designed with horizontal lines like the flatness of the land in the Midwest the Prairie School |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | GEHRY $2000: In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as "The Nobel of Architecture" The Pritzker Prize |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know jack the nave |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: The Philadelphia Museum of Art was designed as a vast temple in this style inspired by antiquity Neoclassical |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1200: This low wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation parapet/battlement |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1600: Along with Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian & Composite, it's the fifth of the orders in ancient architecture Doric |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $2000: The construction technique of vertical posts & crosspieces is called "post & lintel" or "post &" this beam |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $800: A book subtitled "Architecture in the Colombian Countryside" showcases the estates called these in Spanish haciendas |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Basically a garage without side walls, it's associated with 1950s architecture carport |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Adobe was a common material in the Southwest U.S. style of architecture named for these church outposts missions |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Anatomical architectural terms include hip, cell, groin & this, a projecting band along a vault rib |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam) These houses have examples of the neck type of this roof section gable |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: A type of bridge, or any horizontal construction that projects out past its vertical support cantilever |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | BUILDINGS $400: Built in 1876, Abbot Hall in Marblehead, Mass. is in this style of architecture named for a queen Victorian |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Thomas Jefferson Medals for architecture & for law are given annually at this university University of Virginia |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The name of this ornate style of Baroque architecture probably comes from the French for "rockwork" Rococo |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The high walls of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris are supported by these "flying" supports buttresses |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: I.M. Pei's design of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is based on this geometric shape triangle |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in 1887, he took his mother's maiden name as his professional name Le Corbusier |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: With Philip Johnson, this German-American designed NYC's 38-story bronze-&-glass Seagram Building Mies van der Rohe |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Past winners of the Pritzker Prize for this include I.M. Pei & Frank Gehry architecture |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Perhaps from the Italian for "imperfect pearl", it can be a style of music, art or architecture Baroque |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $800: Wright gave a famous 1901 talk on the use of machines in architecture at Hull House in this city Chicago |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $1000: Wright loved architecture that was this, meaning unified; it also means pertaining to living things organic |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME $1000: The novel praises this style of architecture, that of the cathedral Gothic |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | TRAVEL FUN $2000: In Barcelona, take a rooftop tour of Casa Mila, designed by this master of Modernismo architecture Gaudi |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $400: The Times' article "Architecture's Dust-Up in the Desert" analyzed the school of architecture named for him Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This vertical support consists of a shaft, a capital & a base a column |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | ARCHITECTURE $800: In the mid-12th century, this style using ribbed vaults & pointed arches began to be used for churches Gothic |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1600: Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan & Dankmar Adler were leaders in this U.S. school of architecture the Chicago School of Architecture |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1925 this school of design moved from Weimar to Dessau Bauhaus |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Architect to the British Crown from 1615 to 1642, he also designed sets & costumes for theatres (Inigo) Jones |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | HARVARD UNIVERSITY $2000: This German-American who designed Harvard's Grad Center headed the Architecture Dept. from 1938 to 1952 Walter Gropius |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE $200: The building seen here has two key features of old Eastern colleges--red brick & this plant ivy |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE $400: A converted one of these farm structures serves as a theater at UC Santa Cruz a barn |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE $600: UNC's Playmakers Theater, seen here, was patterned after one of these ancient Greek structures a temple |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE $800: The one "of St. John the Divine" is in New York; the one "of Learning" is the heart of the Pitt campus a cathedral |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE $1000: Pfeiffer Chapel, seen here, is at Florida Southern, the only college designed by this great American architect (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | FONTS OF INFORMATION $200: The name of this font also belongs to ancient Teutonic people & a style of architecture Gothic |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | AWARDS $500: In 1979 Philip Johnson was the first winner of the Pritzker Prize in this field Architecture |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $200: What Albert Speer was to Hitler, Marcello Piacentini was to this man Benito Mussolini |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $400: Native country of the appropriately named progressive architect Rem Koolhaas The Netherlands/Holland |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $600: L.A. residents fondly nicknamed Cesar Pelli's Pacific Design Center, seen here, after this huge animal "Blue Whale" |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $1000: In 1906 this partner of McKim & Mead built a Presbyterian church & was killed by a jealous husband Stanford White |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): I.M. Pei's L'Enfant Plaza opened to acclaim in this city in 1968 Washington, D.C. |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | ON LOCATION $600: Martin Scorsese used the well-preserved architecture of Troy, New York to film this Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | SEATTLE MEANS BUSINESS $400: Architecture firm NBBJ designed Safeco Field & this structure seen here that it replaced Kingdome |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The 3 orders of ancient Greek column were doric, ionic, & this ornate one named for a city Corinthian |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This "ice cold" part of an entablature fits in between the cornice & architrave the frieze |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The cathedral of Ulm, Germany, has one of the most famous examples of this tapering structure at the top of a tower Steeple/Spire |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Il Duomo of this city's cathedrals was based on the principles of Roman vaults Florence |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: From the Latin for "gate", it's often an entryway consisting of a roof supported by columns a portico |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | IN A ROW $500: Modeled after the Italian form of the word, in architecture it's a bunch of columns in a row a colonnade |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | STAMPS CELEBRATE THE 19-AUGHTS $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, on the stamp seen here, exemplifies this style of architecture Prairie Style |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the sometimes high-"Pei-ing" art of designing & erecting buildings Architecture |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | CELEBRATE THE CENTURY WITH STAMPS $300: 1920s art deco architecture is exemplified by this New York building on the stamp seen here: the Chrysler Building |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Robert Morris' book "Select Architecture" inspired this man's plan for Monticello Thomas Jefferson |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This Chinese-born architect designed the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing I.M. Pei |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Michael Graves designed whimsical Swan & Dolphin Hotels for this Florida theme park's resort area Walt Disney World |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The largest known one of these Mesopotamian temple towers is at Chogha Zabil in Iran Ziggurats |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The name of this design school was derived from the German for "Architecture House" Bauhaus |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | GIVE ME AN "A"! $800: It's the job of designing buildings, from schools to stadiums Architecture |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | YOU OUGHTA KNOW $100: Common in Roman architecture, this term for a row of arches now often means a place to play video games Arcade |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE $200: The most famous structure designed by George Dance the Younger was this city's Newgate Prison London |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE $800: Popular in the 1300s, Rayonnant, which features radiating lines of tracery, is a French form of this style Gothic |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE $1000: This "flashy" Spanish architect died in 1926, without finishing his masterpiece, seen here Antonio Gaudi |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $600: Style of novels, or of architecture
(6) Gothic |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Luigi Moretti designed buildings for Mussolini & this Washington, D.C. complex that led to Nixon's fall Watergate |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This style influenced by the Romans is named for England's 4 kings between 1714 & 1830 Georgian |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Habitat, built for this city's Expo 67, was a revolutionary prefabricated housing complex Montreal |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): 524 firms competed to design a new library at this city to recall the ancient one Alexandria, Egypt |
| #3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This architecturally controversial Paris complex opened in 1977 Pompidou Centre (or the Beaubourg) |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | THE WORLD OF ISLAM $600: Granada, Spain is home to this fortress-palace, the most beautiful example of western Islamic architecture The Alhambra |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $100: The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place "Love Shack" |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $200: The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I really love you and we're gonna get married, goin' to" this place "Chapel Of Love" |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $300: Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for The Drifters in 1962 "Up On The Roof" |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): In "Royal Wedding", Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit "Dancing On The Ceiling" |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $500: Melissa Etheridge's first Top 40 song, it says, "Crawl inside, wait by the light of the Moon" "Come To My Window" |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | COMPLEXES $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of architecture seen in the Hagia Sophia Complex; it's also a synonym for "complex" Byzantine |
| #3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SCIENTISTS $1000: This English astronomer taught himself architecture & designed St. Paul's Cathedral Sir Christopher Wren |
| #3143, aired 1998-04-08 | SEZ $800: Philip Johnson called this field he worked in "The art of how to waste space" Architecture |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $1000: This Bauhaus founder became a U.S. citizen in 1944 & taught architecture at Harvard Walter Gropius |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | 1980s LIT $200: "From Bauhaus to Our House" is Tom Wolfe's derisive attack on the modernist movement in this field architecture |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | ARCHITECTURE $100: To an architect, it's a supporting strut; to a cowboy, it's a metal device worn on a boot a spur |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Name shared by a famous Gothic church in Paris & a Gothic revival church in Montreal Notre Dame |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Arata Isozaki's first U.S. design was this city's Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as MOCA Los Angeles |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This ornate 18th century style noted for its ornamental shellwork evolved from the Baroque Rococo |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | ARCHITECTURE $500: This Swiss man who used a pseudonym was known for houses on stilts like the Savoye house in Poissy Le Corbusier |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $500: In this order of architecture, the entablature on the column is more intricate than in the Doric Ionic |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $100: In the 1950s Hans Scharoun designed 2 Stuttgart apartment complexes: Romeo & this mate Juliet |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $200: 4 pyramids were erected 1984-89 between this museum's Pavilion Denon & Pavilion Richelieu The Louvre |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $300: He used a snail spiral design for the Guggenheim Museum & for the V.C. Morris Gift Shop in San Francisco Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $400: In the 1980s Benjamin Thompson & Associates updated this city's Faneuil Hall Marketplace Boston |
| #2975, aired 1997-07-04 | 20th CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $500: In 1963 this airline building opened over Grand Central Station Pan American Building |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | ARCHITECTURE $100: These structures that provide disabled access should rise no more than 1" for every 12" of length Ramps |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The retro look of the town of Celebration, built near Orlando by this company, is an example of neo-urbanism Walt Disney Company |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Hyatt Hotel designer John Portman revived these Roman inner courtyards on a grand scale Atria |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Concert hall designers study the architectural branch of this science of sound Acoustics |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | ARCHITECTURE $500: The preservationist movement was spurred by the 1960s demolition of this NYC railroad station Penn Station |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The buildings of Mexico City's University City were built in the 1950s out of this once-molten local rock lava |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Fischer von Erlach's 1690 design for this city's Schonbrunn Palace was much greater than it turned out Vienna |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): The design of the rotunda at the University of Virginia is based on this still-standing temple in Rome the Pantheon |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Le Corbusier, Niemeyer & Harrison were part of the int'l team that designed its NYC headquarters the United Nations |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Walter Gropius said this Dessau, Germany school "designed itself" the Bauhaus |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | ART $200: Renaissance writers gave medieval architecture this barbarian name because they thought it ugly Gothic |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Michael Graves' Dolphin Hotel at this Florida theme park is topped with 2 55'-high dolphin sculptures Walt Disney World |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Eliel Saarinen moved to the U.S. after placing second in the competition to design this city's Tribune Tower Chicago |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers designed this Parisian cultural center noted for its controversial industrial style Pompidou Center |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Designed by Johnson & Burgee, this glass church in Calif. is higher & wider inside than Notre Dame Crystal Cathedral |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Built in 1968, this architect's New National Gallery in West Berlin exemplifies his "less is more" style Mies van der Rohe |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | MAY 6 EVENTS $400: Yale architecture student Maya Yang Lin won a 1981 competition to design this memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1000: Vietnam Memorial creator who said, "Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced" Maya Lin |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The term catacomb was first applied to the Christian cemetery under San Sebastiano outside this city Rome |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1992 Robert A.M. Stern was named chief designer for the proposed renovations of this NYC square Times Square |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Henry Bacon styled this memorial in Washington's Potomac Park after a classic Greek temple the Lincoln Memorial |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | ARCHITECTURE $800: c. 1865 Dankmar Adler moved to this city, where he formed a partnership with Louis Sullivan Chicago |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Nickname of architect & landscape designer Lancelot Brown Capability |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | MUSEUMS $1000: James I. Freed's design for this Washington museum includes elements of concentration camp architecture The Holocaust Museum |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ARCHITECTURE $100: It's a cupola or tower for bells or bats a belfry |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: It's a high-roofed shed in which aircraft are stored & repaired a hangar |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Hansel or Gretel could tell you elaborate trim on a house is known by this "sweet" term gingerbread |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Charles Bulfinch was appointed its architect in 1817 & added the rotunda & West Central Portico the Capitol |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Originally a small house or pavilion on the grounds of a larger house, now it's a place to gamble a casino |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | CAPITAL CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This capital's Government Palace stands on the site of Pizarro's palace, which inspired its architecture Lima (Peru) |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $500: From 1938 to 1952 Walter Gropius served as chairman of this department at Harvard Architecture |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This defense department headquarters was designed by G.E. Bergstrom to conserve structural steel the Pentagon |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Often used to absorb thrusts from roof vaults, these supports come in hanging & flying varieties buttresses |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | MUSICAL QUOTES $500: In an 1829 letter, this German poet wrote,
"I call architecture frozen music" Goethe |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Examples of his geodesic dome were built in Baton Rouge, LA. & on Oahu, among other places (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Begun in 1785, his capitol building in Richmond was based on a Roman temple in France Thomas Jefferson |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The first winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize received this British sculptor's "Ode to Architecture" Henry Moore |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed the classically elegant Petit Trianon at this palace Versailles |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Though this Maine city's state house has been remodeled, it retains its original Charles Bulfinch facade Augusta |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This architect of Welsh descent named his homes in Wisconsin & Arizona for the Welsh poet Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $800: From Latin for "little tub", it's a dome-like structure often found atop a roof Cupola |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This renowned Brazilian architect designed the President's Palace in Brasilia Oscar Niemeyer |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: This style of architecture named for England's first 4 Hanoverian kings was quite popular Georgian |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | FRANKS & FRANKLINS $200: He wanted to study architecture at the University of Wisconsin in the 1880s, but it wasn't offered Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $200: The sorin is the spire on the top of one of these Japanese temples a pagoda |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $400: Spanish or mission tile is traditionally made of this material clay |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $600: An early type of castle was the Motte-and-this Bailey |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $800: An agger was an ancient one of these "o'er" which you could watch a Star-Spangled Banner streaming a rampart |
| #2557, aired 1995-10-17 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $1000: In India a stambha is a free-standing one of these cylindrical structures column |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | AWARDS $800: This Chinese-American was awarded the 1976 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture I.M. Pei |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $200: William Thornton earned $500 & a city lot for his 1792 design of this domed D.C. building the Capitol |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $400: According to Mies van der Rohe's famous dictum, this "is more" Less |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This automaker's Goteborg, Sweden headquarters was designed by American Romaldo Giurgola Volvo |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This dome designed by Buckminster Fuller is a hemispheric space frame a geodesic dome |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Stage designer Jo Mielziner worked with this Finnish-American architect on NYC's Vivian Beaumont theater Eero Saarinen |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Designed by Donato Bramante, the Tempietto of San Pietro in this city marks the site of St. Peter's martyrdom Rome |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Styles of this building feature include pitched, hipped & gambrel roofs |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $300: This Conn. city's old state house, designed by Charles Bulfinch is a masterpiece of the Federalist style Hartford |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The turnpike type of this building feature is circular or winding staircase |
| #2528, aired 1995-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Charles Garnier won an 1860s competition to design this European city's famed opera house Paris |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The lancet style of these glass structures is tall, thin & pointed windows |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A campanile, which is often freestanding, is this kind of tower a bell tower |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "sun", it's a glass-enclosed room or porch that's exposed to the Sun a solarium |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Many of his best designs, like Fallingwater & the Guggenheim were based on forms found in nature (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #2524, aired 1995-07-20 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Moorish palace complex in Granada is known for its delicate marble columns & ornamentation the Alhambra |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Henry Hobson Richardson designed this Massachusetts city's Trinity Church in the Romanesque style Boston |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Finlandia Hall in this capital city was one of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's last creations Helsinki |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan once owned a museum devoted to this "Prairie Style" architect Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The Cathedral of Notre Dame at Reims is a masterpiece of this architectural style Gothic |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This uppermost part of a capital has the same name as an ancient calculator an abacus |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Term for a series of stairs uninterrupted by a landing flight |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ARCHITECTURE $200 (Daily Double): One of these supports counterbalances the thrust of a vault buttress |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ARCHITECTURE $200: These protective tiles can cover walls & spires, not just roofs shingles |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Dry masonry is brickwork or stonework laid without this mortar |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Classically, it's found at the bottom of a column; today it's the base for a statue pedestal |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen designed the U.S. embassy in this Norwegian capital Oslo |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The origins of the pagoda are traced back to burial mounds & Buddhist stupas in this large Asian country India |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This Canton-born architect designed the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse I.M. Pei |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | ARCHITECTURE $800: James Renwick designed "The Castle", part of this museum complex, in Norman Romanesque style Smithsonian |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: A style of architecture was named for this dynasty whose most notable ruler was Charlemagne Carolingian |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $200: This English art style that fell between Gothic & Renaissance is named for a Tudor queen Elizabethan |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $400: Thomas Jefferson used the Neoclassical style for this university the University of Virginia |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $600: From the French for "rock-work", this art style was popular during the reign of Louis XV Rococo |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $800: In the 1920s the international style of architecture emerged from this German school Bauhaus |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $1000: Born on Crete in 1541, this painter came under the influence of mannerism while working in Italy El Greco |
| #2490, aired 1995-06-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Palenque in southern Mexico contains exquisite examples of the architecture of their civilization the Mayans |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $200: One of Michael Graves' most important commissions was the addition to this city's Whitney Museum New York City |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius served as an artillery engineer to this first Roman emperor Octavius Caesar (Caesar Augustus) |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Richard Morris Hunt designed The Breakers, an opulent Renaissance palazzo in this Rhode Island city Newport |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Guarino Guarini designed this Italian city's chapel of the Holy Shroud on a circular plan Turin |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: He designed the German Pavilion as well as his Barcelona chair for the 1929 Barcelona Exhibition Mies van der Rohe |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The casement type of this often opens outward by means of a crank a window |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Hector Guimard was famous for his Art Nouveau entrances for this city's metro system Paris |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: 12,000 concrete blocks were used to build one of his major works, the Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Usually meaning a building used for gambling, it can also be an ornamental pavilion or small house a casino |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This cast metal was used in building from the late 18th century until superseded by steel iron |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $600: All classical orders of these supports have a base except for the Greek doric columns |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Ribbed vaults & flying buttresses are features of this style that followed Romanesque Gothic |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Central Park, planned the Palo Alto campus of this university Stanford |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: St. George's Hall in this British city on the Mersey River is renowned for its Greco-Roman architecture Liverpool |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Ancient Greek architects Ictinus & Callicrates built this temple dedicated to Athena the Parthenon |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | ARCHITECTURE $400: After the Great Fire of London in 1666, he designed more than 50 new churches (Christopher) Wren |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Jefferson's design of this university's rotunda was inspired by the Pantheon in Rome the University of Virginia |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | ARCHITECTURE $800: He designed a geodesic dome that would have covered part of Manhattan Island Buckminster Fuller |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Frei Otto designed structures with tent-like roofs for the 1972 Summer Olympics in this city Munich |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Francois Hennebique was a pioneer in the use of this "reinforced" material in architecture concrete |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This Chinese-born American architect designed Beijing's Xiangshan Hotel I.M. Pei |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan, in this city New Delhi |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This tallest building at the U.N.'s New York headquarters is based on the work of Le Corbusier the Secretariat |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Nazi designed the new Reich Chancellery & the Nuremberg zeppelin field named for Adolf Hitler Albert Speer |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Italian high-tech architect Renzo Piano co-designed this city's celebrated Pompidou Center Paris |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Terrazzo flooring is usually composed of chips of this stone in cement mortar marble |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Pavilion, saddleback & mansard are types of this part of a building roof |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The Union Tank Car Company in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is one of his best known geodesic domes Buckminster Fuller |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $500: The Turkish style of these Islamic prayer towers is slender, pencil-shaped & girded with balconies minaret |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Some of these waterspouts carved to look like grotesque beasts may protrude 3 feet from a cathedral Gargoyles |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Swiss architect Hannes Meyer was the first chairman of this German design school's department of architecture Bauhaus |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ARCHITECTURE $600: If you know that oeil de boeuf is French for this kind of window, you're right on target Bulls eye |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This Canton-born architect designed the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas I.M. Pei |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Baroque architect & sculptor designed the colonnade that borders the piazza in front of St. Peter's Gianlorenzo Bernini |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | HOME, SWEET HOME $200: Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona was his winter home & architecture school Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2315, aired 1994-09-30 | STATE CAPITALS $100: This Delaware capital boasts some fine examples of Victorian architecture Dover |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Thomas Ustick Walter was responsible for adding the wings & dome to this D.C. structure The U.S. Capitol |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: McKim, Mead & White designed the second of the 4 NYC sports arenas to bear this name Madison Square Garden |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Jean-Francois-Therese Chalgrin designed this monument that stands in Place Charles de Gaulle The Arc de Triomphe |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Gordon Bunshaft designed the Hirshhorn Museum building of this museum complex the Smithsonian |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Swiss-born architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is better known by this pseudonym Le Corbusier |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $200: A feng-huo-t'ai is one of the beacon towers along this very long structure the Great Wall of China |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $400: In Japan a cha-shitsu is one of these; a famous one is "of the August Moon" a teahouse |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $600: In Spain a posada is one of these; however, a Ramada isn't an inn |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $1000: It's the Italian term for a free-standing bell tower like the leaning one in Pisa a campanile |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $2,500 (Daily Double): In Russian architecture, it's the citadel of a city a kremlin |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Thomas Jefferson's state capitol in this city was modeled on the Maison Carree in Nimes, France Richmond |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This "flying" arched support extends from a pillar to a wall a buttress |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This type of window projects from a building's outer wall, forming a recess inside a bay window |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $800: A cathedral's transept is located in front of this domed projection that may house the altar the apse |
| #2282, aired 1994-07-05 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Finnish-born architect's father, Eliel, designed the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Eero Saarinen |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $200: Spanning a moat or ditch, it was raised in times of emergency the drawbridge |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $400: What was once a term for the living quarters became this word for the castle's prison the dungeon |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $600 (Daily Double): A windlass was used to raise & lower this huge wood & iron grating the portcullis |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $600: The Balistraria was the room where these weapons were kept or the windows through which they were aimed arrows (bows & arrows, or crossbows) |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $1000: This immense room was used for general gatherings & dining the Great Hall |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $200: These supports come in setback, diagonal & clasping types as well as flying buttresses |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Wedge-shaped blocks called voussoirs make up these structures that span openings arches |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The Manueline style of architecture peculiar to this country is named for King Manuel the Fortunate Portugal |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This Cambodian temple complex was built for King Suryavarman II Angkor Wat |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Completed in 537, the dome of this Constantinople church collapsed in 558 Hagia Sophia (Santa Sophia) |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Francis Greenway of New South Wales was among the first of this country's leading architects Australia |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This sun-dried mud brick is a common building material in Latin America adobe |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | ARCHITECTURE $300: A Roman forum corresponds to this culture's agora Greek |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Ustad Isa Khan Effendi designed this Agra, India tomb for Shah Jahan the Taj Mahal |
| #2217, aired 1994-04-05 | ARCHITECTURE $500: A wedge-shaped keystone is usually the last stone to be inserted in one of these structures an arch |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: A school of architecture named for this famed architect has campuses in Wisconsin & Arizona Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $100: The United States pavilion at Expo 67 was a geodesic one of these a dome |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Typically, these towerlike Asian structures have stories that diminish in size from bottom to top a pagoda |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $300: The Baths of Caracalla in this city were once richly decorated with marble & mosaics Rome |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Frederick John Kiesler's last major work was the Shrine of the Book in this country Israel |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Oscar Niemeyer is this South American country's most famous architect Brazil |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Medieval castles are often encircled by these deep ditches moats |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In Elizabethan mansions, people climbed the dog-legged style of these to get from floor to floor stairs (staircases) |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $300: This beautiful mausoleum found in Agra is a masterpiece of Mogul architecture the Taj Mahal |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Great English architect who designed the majestic west towers of Westminster Abbey Christopher Wren |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $500: This architect's initials stand for Ieoh Ming, which means "to inscribe brightly" I.M. Pei |
| #2172, aired 1994-02-01 | THE "I"s HAVE IT $500: A dialect spoken in ancient Greece, or an order of classical architecture Ionic |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Often fitted with glass, it's an opening in a ceiling to let the sunshine in a skylight |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | ARCHITECTURE $400: It's the combined structure atop a church that includes the tower & spire a steeple |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | ARCHITECTURE $600: A style of window popular in commercial buildings of the 1890s is named for this Illinois city Chicago |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Architect Sir John Soane's eccentric home in this capital city features mock ruins & an Egyptian crypt London |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): N. Hawksmoor assisted John Vanbrugh in designing this palace for the Duke of Marlborough Blenheim Palace |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The central train station in this Dutch capital is one of Petrus Cuypers' most famous works Amsterdam |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Unity Temple, which he designed for Oak Park, Illinois, is noted for its bold use of concrete Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Chinese-American who designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I.M. Pei |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Te flamboyant phase of this medieval style featured flamelike curves in its tracery Gothic architecture |
| #2156, aired 1994-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Sir Basil Spence designed a new cathedral next to the bombed-out ruins of the old one in this English city Coventry |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $100: An arched passageway, or an amusement center where you can spend your "penny"s arcade |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The New South Church built in this Mass. city in 1814 features a neoclassical octagonal nave Boston |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $300: When the Turks turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque, they added 4 of these towers to its exterior minarets |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Catalan architect who designed the strikingly odd Casa Mila Apartment House in Barcelona Antonio Gaudi |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $500: The decorated form of this medieval style can be seen in the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral Gothic |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This American architect's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was completed in 1922 Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Callicrates & Ictinus designed the Parthenon, built atop this Athenian site the Acropolis |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Alvar Aalto designed Finland's pavilion for this city's 1939 World's Fair New York |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Asher Benjamin designed this American city's Charles Street Meeting House & West Church Boston |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This American developed the geodesic dome, a hemispheric type of space-frame Buckminster Fuller |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Many churches have a cruciform plan, which means they're shaped like one of these Cross |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $200: A flight is a series of these unbroken by a landing stairs |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $300: One of these ancient Roman structures still carries the water supply of Segovia, Spain Aqueduct |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In north Africa, these towers from which Muslims are called to prayer are rectangular in plan Minarets |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): Gropius, Mies van der Rohe & this Swiss architect all worked for architect Peter Behrens Le Corbusier |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | ARCHITECTURAL TERMS $1000: Flying buttresses are most associated with this style of architecture gothic |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $200: An oval racecourse for chariots, designed for "Maximus" fun the circus |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $400: It's a Roman public square or piazza surrounded by important buildings (& may contain Laker Girls) a forum |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $600: Emperor who built the Basilica Ulpia; his column's in front of it Trajan |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | ROMAN ARCHITECTURE $800: Its 3 main components were the caldarium, frigidarium & tepidarium Roman baths |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | AWARDS $400: In 1966 the Henry Bacon Medal for Memorial Architecture went to this St. Louis structure the Arch |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES $1000: This designer of the Queen's house at Greenwich founded English classical architecture Inigo Jones |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi in this canal city was built in the Lombardesque style in 1509 Venice |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Florence's Laurentian Lib., designed by this Renaissance artist, is a fine example of mannerism Michelangelo |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $600: A 2-sloped one of these with a very steep lower slope was named for architect Francois Mansart roof |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Buildings that resemble this architect's designs are described as Miesian Mies van der Rohe |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: In 1904 his father, Eliel, won a competition to design Helsinki's railroad station Eero Saarinen |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Charles Bulfinch is famous for the beautiful houses he built on Beacon Hill in this city Boston |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Palladio's architecture was a major influence on his design for Monticello Thomas Jefferson |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $600: One of Sir Edwin Lutyens' most important works was the layout for this Indian capital New Delhi |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Arthur Charles Erickson's Simon Fraser Univ. overlooks this British Columbia city where he was born Vancouver |
| #2055, aired 1993-07-09 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The name of this influential German school means construction or architecture house Bauhaus |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | ARCHITECTURE $100: The 4 main types of these are ribbed, dome, groined & barrel vaults |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This city's Hagia Sophia is considered the finest achievement of Byzantine architecture Constantinople (Istanbul) |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1949 this German- American architect & some former students designed the Graduate Center at Harvard (Walter) Gropius |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | ARCHITECTURE $500: A balcony can be built on one of these horizontal beams supported at only one end a cantilever beam |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | ARCHITECTURE $600 (Daily Double): This covered walk is built around the courtyard of a college building, church or monastery a cloister |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $200: From plans by Louis le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart built the hall of mirrors at this royal residence Versailles |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Antonio Gaudi's greatest project was the church of the Sagrada Familia in this Spanish city Barcelona |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $600: James Renwick is best remembered as the designer of this NYC cathedral at Fifth Ave. & 50th St. St. Patrick's Cathedral |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Anthemius of Tralles & Isidorus of Miletus designed this large Constantinople church St. Sophia's |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | ARCHITECTURE $1,900 (Daily Double): William Van Alen designed this NYC skyscraper whose gargoyles resemble auto radiator caps the Chrysler Building |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: As part of her research for this novel, Ayn Rand worked in Eli Kahn's architecture office The Fountainhead |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This home got a new $1,000,000 roof in time for the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth Monticello |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This style of architecture was named for the city of Byzantium Byzantine |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This world-famous Romanesque tower was built on unstable subsoil, which is why it tilts the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This "new art" style has been called "Le Style Metro" in honor of Paris' subway system Art Nouveau |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Chinese-American designed the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. I.M. Pei |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | THE SOUTH $500: This Tennessee city's architecture helped earn it the nickname "The Athens of the South" Nashville |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | ARCHITECTURE $200: His great model design for St. Paul's was rejected & he was sent back to the drawing board (Sir Christopher) Wren |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Types of these include Diocletian, bull's-eye & bay windows |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This Richard Upjohn church at Broadway & Wall St. is an example of English Perpendicular Gothic Trinity Church |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: From French for "sliding door", it's a heavy iron grating which can be lowered over a castle door a portcullis |
| #1909, aired 1992-12-17 | ARCHITECTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from on location.) Landmark seen here; no cement or mortar was used in its construction the Parthenon |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This arched brick or stone ceiling can be of the barrel, groin or ribbed style a vault |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | ARCHITECTURE $400: From the Latin for "porch", it's a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns a portico |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Bernini's bronze canopy over the main altar at St. Peter's is a masterpiece of this style of architecture Baroque |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains ziggurats |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This architect, born in 1573, founded the English school of classical architecture Inigo Jones |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: This city's Seagram Building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Philip Johnson in the 1950s New York |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1887 he designed his 1st building while working for Joseph Lyman Silsbee in Chicago Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $600: It's the more common name for tall casement windows, from the country where they were developed French windows |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The Baroque style of architecture began in this European capital city in the early 1600s Rome |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: It's a support built against a Gothic structure's outer wall a flying buttress (or a buttress) |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Bruges in this country is known for its medieval atmosphere & Gothic architecture Belgium |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | AUTHORS $500 (Daily Double): In his "From Bauhaus to Our House", he talks about the wrong & right stuff in modern architecture Tom Wolfe |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: Robie House is among the structures built by this man, a major force in the Prairie School of Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Christopher Wren authorized or made designs for more than 50 churches in this city London |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza in this country features feathered serpent columns Mexico |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Gargoyles are most associated with this style of architecture Gothic |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Style whose name comes from French words for "stonework" & "shells", rocaille & coquille rococo |
| #1843, aired 1992-09-16 | ARCHITECTURE $500: On a castle, a turret is a small one of these, usually forming part of a larger structure a tower |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The most beautiful ancient theatre that survives in this country is the one at Epidaurus Greece |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A platform atop a coastal home that's used as a lookout for ships is called a widow's one of these walk |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $600: This style of the 11th & 12th centuries is named for Italy's eternal city Romanesque |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Plaster ceilings were popular when this style named for King James I was dominant in England Jacobean |
| #1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Juste-Aurele Meissonier, who popularized the shell motif in the 1700s, has been called the father of this style Rococo |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Using a lot of reinforced concrete, Danish architect Jorn Utzon designed this Sydney landmark the Opera House |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: After a fire, Stanford White rebuilt the University of Virginia rotunda designed by this man Thomas Jefferson |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | ARCHITECTURE $600: These Roman structures for washing & socializing were called thermae, from Greek for hot the baths |
| #1716, aired 1992-02-03 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Architect of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, he was born in Canton, China I.M. Pei |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE $100: A dentil is a small block resembling one of these, hence its name tooth |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Inspired by riverboats, the "Steamboat Gothic" style flourished in this country in the 19th century USA |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE $300: A hexastyle is a portico with this many columns 6 |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Some living rooms feature these high ceilings named for a type of church cathedral |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE $900 (Daily Double): This style of architecture flourished even after the city it was named for was renamed Constantinople Byzantine (Byzantium) |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Portcullises, which were lowered to keep enemies out of castles, were commonly made of this metal iron |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The front of a building, or a false or superficial appearance a facade |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $600: A flying one of these is an arched support extending from a column to a wall a buttress |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Fan vaulting is a feature of this medieval architectural style gothic |
| #1695, aired 1992-01-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The largest temple ever built in the Corinthian style is named for this supreme god Zeus |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | NAME'S THE SAME $1000: A leader of the Chicago School of Architecture, or the current Secretary of Health & Human Services Louis Sullivan |
| #1662, aired 1991-11-19 | DESIGN $300: In Byzantine architecture a dosseret is a block that rests atop the capital of one of these a column |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Virginia's Shirley Plantation has a "hanging" flight of these rising 3 stories without visible support a staircase |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Eero Saarinen's only skyscraper is CBS Headquarters in this city New York City |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Found in Moorish buildings, these ornamental points are named for the hanging deposits on cave ceilings stalactites |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): Begun in 1248, Cologne Cathedral is the largest cathedral in this style in northern Europe Gothic style |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Byzantine style is characterized by a central one of these over a square space, as the Hagia Sophia a dome |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The Gothic style known as Isabelline, which began circa 1479, was named for her Queen Isabella |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The magnificent Farnese Palace in this capital city was designed partly by Michelangelo Rome |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The master wood-carver Grinling Gibbons decorated the choir stalls at this London cathedral St. Paul's |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Among this city's surviving Byzantine churches are Hagia Irene & Hagia Sophia Istanbul |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This country's Manueline style celebrated its sea trade with carved barnacle & coral designs Portugal |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | DESIGN $300: A diamond-shaped figure seen in heraldic designs & architecture, or a diamond-shaped cough drop a lozenge |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $100: These deep ditches filled with water were a feature of Norman castles moats |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The domes on St. Basil's Cathedral are often described as being shaped like this vegetable an onion |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $300: A turret used for ventilation on the roof of a medieval building, or an art museum in Paris the Louvre |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $400: An adava, or bullseye one of these, is round or oval with bars that radiate from a central eye window |
| #1589, aired 1991-06-27 | ARCHITECTURE $500: He was an astronomy professor at Oxford but the first building he designed was a chapel at Cambridge Christopher Wren |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | ARCHITECTURE $200: 1 of Palladio's most famous churches is San Giorgio Maggiore in this canal city Venice |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In 1932 he organized the Taliesin Fellowship, a training program for architects Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | ARCHITECTURE $800: From the Arabic "al-qubbah", the vault, it's a recessed chamber within or connected to a room an alcove |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Of the 3 classical Greek orders of architecture, this one, named for a city, was the most ornate Corinthian |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | ARCHITECTURE $1,700 (Daily Double): His 1682 design for the Royal Hospital at Chelsea was inspired by the Hotel des Invalides (Christopher) Wren |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In China, most of these sacred towers have 8 sides & 3 to 15 stories pagodas |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Deposed by his son, Shah Jahan was unable to complete plans to build a replica of this, his wife's tomb the Taj Mahal |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $600: St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City was built during a revival of this architectural style Gothic |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The largest dome of ancient architecture covers this Roman temple dedicated to all gods the Pantheon |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Flanked by aisles, this chief area within a church extends from the main entrance to the sanctuary the nave |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | ARCHITECTURE $100: A small New England-style home with a gabled roof, named for a Massachusetts peninsula Cape Cod |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Bats & bells both hang in this upper story of a church tower belfry |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | ARCHITECTURE $300: These accessories can be bulls-eye, bow or bay window |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The gothic style began in this country in the 12th century France |
| #1521, aired 1991-03-25 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Architect who observed, "No house should be on any hill but of the hill" Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | QUOTES $600: Great German poet & dramatist who called architecture "frozen music" Goethe |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | ARCHITECTURE $100: It describes the 19th century London Exhibition palace & Schuller's cathedral Crystal |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | ARCHITECTURE $200: He first won fame for his prairie houses that stressed a unity with nature Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | ARCHITECTURE $300: The central stone of an arch that holds the rest in place, named for its importance the keystone |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In architecture, a capital is the top portion of one of these a column |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The colonnaded piazza in front of this famous church is Bernini's architectural masterpiece St. Peter's in Rome |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The portion of a ribbed vault that's between the ribs, or a structure made by a spider web |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The name for this part of a church, usually flanked by aisles, comes from the Latin for "ship" nave |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $600: In classical architecture, a caryatid is a sculpted female figure used as one of these a column |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The "wheel windows" found in Gothic cathedrals are also known by this floral name the rose windows |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Preceding the Gothic, this period in European architecture flourished in the 11th-12th c. Romanesque |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1000: Colonial architecture can be seen in this neighborhood, the city's oldest Georgetown |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $200: It's a ceiling built in stone, brick or concrete, or a big bank safe a vault |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The armlike beams connecting a high wall to outside supports in Gothic churches flying buttresses |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $600: By using pendentives the Byzantines managed to set these on square bases domes |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The director of Germany's Bauhaus school from 1919-1928, he took the chair of architecture at Harvard in 1937 Gropius |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Term for the iron grating that slides up & down in front of the door in a fortified building a portcullis |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon were the architects of this building, the world's tallest for more than 4 decades Empire State Building |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $400: This architect's first & middle names are Ieoh Ming I.M. Pei |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $800: In a theatre, the frame or arch that separates the stage from the auditorium proscenium arch |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): British architectural style that began after the accession of Henry VII Tudor |
| #1417, aired 1990-10-30 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The part of a cathedral that lies between the chancel & the high altar, or a ruling body of elders presbytery |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Examples of these features are bay, casement & jalousie windows |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Bricks get their reddish color from the presence of this ore in the clay used to make them iron |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $600: You might say that this skyscraper, the world's tallest from 1913 to 1930, was built on nickels & dimes the Woolworth Building |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Architectural detail named for, not created by, Francois Mansart a (mansard) roof |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: He designed statehouses for Maine, Massachusetts & Connecticut, while his son is famous for stories from mythology (Charles) Bulfinch |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | SOUTH AMERICA $400: In 1957, Oscar Niemeyer was made director of architecture of this new capital city Brasilia |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York was designed by this Chinese-American I.M. Pei |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The tallest surviving Mayan pyramid is in this country, Mexico's neighbor Guatemala |
| #1373, aired 1990-07-18 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: In the early 1700s Sir J. Vanbrugh designed this palace in Oxfordshire for the Duke of Marlborough Blenheim Palace |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | MAGAZINES $1000: It calls itself "The International Magazine of Fine Interior Design" Architectural Digest |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Wallace K. Harrison designed the Metropolitan Opera House as part of this NYC complex Lincoln Center |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence is called this after its massive dome Il Duomo |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | ARCHITECTURE $1500: At age 13 he emigrated from Finland to the United States with his architect father Eliel Eero Saarinen |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Pseudonym of Swiss architect & city planner Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Le Corbusier |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | ARCHITECTURE $2500: Chicagoan who has been called "The Father of the American Skyscraper" Louis Sullivan |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Chicago's Tribune Tower contains stones from the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum & this 1,500-mile Chinese landmark Great Wall |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A large window or series of windows projecting from a wall & forming a recess within bay window |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Architect who designed the Climatron, an enclosed geodesic dome at the Missouri Botanical Garden (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The fanciest of the borders of Greek columns, it's also the one with the fanciest name Corinthian |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Havard's Visual Arts Center is the only U.S. building completely designed by this French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | SPELLING $400: In architecture it's a decorative band; its name makes it sound like it's frozen F-R-I-E-Z-E |
| #1336, aired 1990-05-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Some of the architecture in this Liberian capital is reminiscent of the southern U.S. Monrovia |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | THE RENAISSANCE $1000: Field in which Brunelleschi & Palladio worked during the Renaissance Architecture |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $200: From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city Paris |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $400: His Imperial Palace Hotel was one of the few buildings in Tokyo left undamaged after the 1923 quake Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The Palace of Governors in this state capital was built of adobe in 1610 Santa Fe |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $800 (Daily Double): The 36 columns of the Lincoln Memorial stand for these the 36 states in 1865 |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: James Renwick built NYC's St. Patrick's Cathedral in this architectural style Gothic |
| #1309, aired 1990-04-19 | EDUCATION $500 (Daily Double): The first U.S. school of architecture was established at this Mass. school founded in 1861 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| #1306, aired 1990-04-16 | FAMOUS JONESES $400: He's considered the founder of the English school of classical architecture Inigo Jones |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | ART & DESIGN $400: A walkway or porch with a roof supported by columns, it's featured in Greek architecture portico |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Styles of these include gambrel, curb & mansard rooves |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Ribbed groin vaults & the flying buttress were introduced with this imposing 12th century style Gothic |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The most famous buildings designed by Inigo Jones are in this capital city London |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800: This term for wooden paneling comes from the Middle Dutch "wagenschot", perhaps meaning wagon wood wainscoting |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This northern Italian born in 1508 has been called the most imitated architect in history Palladio |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE $100: A writer & doctor as well as an architect, Imhotep designed the 1st of these structures a pyramid |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE $300: The obelisk that stands in the center of this square was brought to Rome from Egypt by Caligula St. Peter's |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: An innovative housing project called Habitat was built for this city's Expo 67 Montreal |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Once a church, then a mosque & now a museum, the Hagia Sophia is considered the finest example of this style Byzantine |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient structure seen here Stonehenge |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Politician Andrew Hamilton designed this building that housed the Liberty Bell the Old Philadelphia State House |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Metal beams, electric motors & this invention made the construction of skyscrapers possible the elevator |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | ARCHITECTURE $600: In 1947 architects from 5 countries were engaged to design this complex the United Nations headquarters |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest church, newly opened in the Ivory Coast, is said to resemble this 1, now 2nd largest St. Peter's Basilica |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Few examples remain of China's early architecture because most of it was made of this material wood |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Materials from all over the world were used to build the assembly hall in this NYC complex United Nations |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: The curved part of a ceiling, or a locked room in a building where valuables are kept Vault |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Part of a building on which you'd find a dormer or a cupola Roof |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Word for the moveable glass slats in Jalousie windows, or the often stationary wooden ones in shutters Louvers |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: A latticework pavilion or summerhouse usually built to take advantage of a view Gazebo |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Gargoyles look grotesque, but they are built to project from the wall & drain this water or rain |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In a building, these are the principle structural means of controlling natural light windows |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Maya Lin designed this Washington, D.C. memorial dedicated Nov. 13, 1982 the Vietnam (Veterans) Memorial |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $400: 2 of 3 New England states whose statehouses were designed by Charles Bulfinch (2 of) Connecticut, Massachusetts or Maine |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $500: Walter Gropius designed the new building at Dessau into which this school moved in 1925 Bauhaus |
| #1221, aired 1989-12-18 | FRANCE $1000: The cathedral in this town 50 mi. SW of Paris is considered the finest example of Gothic architecture Chartres |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | FAMOUS QUOTES $200: Mies van der Rohe stated that in architecture "Less is" this more |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $100: Dramatic 16th c. style named for the Portuguese "Barroco", meaning an irregular-shaped pearl Baroque |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $200: The Swedes who settled in Delaware in 1638 were the 1st in America to build cabins made of these logs |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Ancient British monument that's an example of post-and-lintel construction later used by the Greeks Stonehenge |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Associated with geodesic domes, he once proposed saving energy by covering midtown Manhattan with a dome R. Buckminster Fuller |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $600 (Daily Double): The Romans built their houses around this open-air central room Atrium |
| #1123, aired 1989-06-21 | DESIGN $200: Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, has been called a museum of his Prairie School style of architecture Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $200: If a church's interior is "cruciform", it's shaped like this a cross |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Found in Gothic architecture, these supports can be "clasping" or "flying" buttresses |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The term for a round hall surmounted by a dome: the U.S. Capitol has a famous one a rotunda |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $800: From the Greek for "one stone" it's a structure of one solid piece, like an obelisk a monolith |
| #1096, aired 1989-05-15 | ARCHITECTURE $4,000 (Daily Double): The 3 classical orders of Greek architecture were Doric, Ionic & this Corinthian |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | THE MIDDLE AGES $500: Named for a barbarian tribe, this style of architecture was later considered barbarous by Italians Gothic |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | 1981 $400: Maya Yang Lin, an architecture student at Yale, won a nationwide competition for her design of this memorial the Vietnam War Memorial |
| #1041, aired 1989-02-27 | LITERATURE $1000: After the success of "Far from the Madding Crowd", he gave up architecture for writing Thomas Hardy |
| #1040, aired 1989-02-24 | HIDEOUS CREATURES $400: These grotesque creatures used as waterspouts are a mainstay of Gothic architecture gargoyles |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $200: A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying" a buttress |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In architecture, it can be suspended over a statue; in furniture, it hangs above your bed a canopy |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Found in classical architecture, a caryatid is a column shaped like this a woman |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Legend says the architect of this church on Red Square was blinded so he couldn't create another one St. Basil's |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The oldest of the Greek classical orders, it featured the simplest capitals on the columns Doric |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | THE 17th CENTURY $800: Elaborate style of art & architecture that was dominant in 17th century Europe Baroque |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | "PORT"s ON THE MAP $400: European country whose lavish 16th century style of architecture was known as "Manueline" Portugal |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | PLACES OF WORSHIP $400: The cathedrals of Chartres, Reims & Cologne are outstanding examples of this style of architecture Gothic |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Imhotep designed the 1st of these, which was completed about 2650 B.C. the pyramids |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Floral name for the circular-shaped stained glass windows found in churches rose windows |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | ARCHITECTURE $600: He gained int'l attention with the "Prairie Style" houses he designed from about 1900-1910 Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The Hagia Sophia in this city exemplifies the Byzantine use of domed interiors Constantinople (or Istanbul) |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: He "Finnish"ed 1st in his field by designing the Gateway Arch in St. Louis & TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport Eero Saarinen |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | ARCHITECTURE $200: If you come with me to a "casbah" in North Africa, we'll visit this type of military structure a fortress |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | ARCHITECTURE $200: For some 3000 years, this Egyptian structure was the world's largest building the Great Pyramid of Cheops |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400 (Daily Double): Italians scorned this northern European style of cathedral architecture, linking it with a barbarian tribe Gothic |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Term for the distance between 2 floors of a building a story |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The 3 Greek orders refer not to takeout from Nick's Cafe but to styles of these supports columns |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The staircase as a decorative feature was 1st used in English mansions of this period starting around 1558 the Tudor period (Elizabethan) |
| #829, aired 1988-03-24 | BRIITISH HISTORY $400: Sir Christopher Wren was an astronomy prof. at Oxford before gaining fame in this profession architecture |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | TOYS $300: Invented by a Hungarian architecture professor, this puzzle has its own entry in the Ency. Americana Rubik's Cube |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ARCHITECTURE $200: It's said the hero in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" was patterned after this architect (Frank) Lloyd Wright |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Term for the base that supports a statue, column or a woman you greatly admire pedestal |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ARCHITECTURE $600: DOI & AFL-CIO run a construction trade school for this ethnic group known for not fearing heights American Indians |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The term for this 18th century decorative style came from the French "rocaille", rockwork Rococo |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: On the Jan. 10, 1964 cover of Time magazine, his head was drawn as a geodesic dome Buckminster Fuller |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE $200: From Old French for "portable siege tower", some have bats in them a belfry |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE $400: If you don't know this other name of the Garden Grove (Calif.) Community Church, just ask Robert Schuller the Crystal Cathedral |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE $600: Examples of this architectural style are the English cathedral in Salisbury & the French one in Reims Gothic architecture |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE $800: Usually, it's the combined tower & spire of a church the steeple |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | CHURCH ARCHITECTURE $1000: From Latin for "holy", it's the holiest part of a church, where the high altar is placed the sanctuary |
| #750, aired 1987-12-04 | ART $400: In 1933, the Nazis closed down this school of art & architecture founded in 1919 by Gropius Bauhaus |
| #628, aired 1987-05-06 | WONDERS $600: Tho considered a wonder of Indian architecture, this tomb was designed by a Turkish architect the Taj Mahal |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: It's said early dictators copied European architecture to make this capital of Paraguay look European Asunción |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In 1921, a California developer laid out this Florida town with a California name Hollywood |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ARCHITECTURE $400: A sun-dried brick of clay & straw, its Spanish name is from Arabic "at-tub", "the brick" adobe |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ARCHITECTURE $600: The central wedge-shaped piece in an arch which locks it together a keystone |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The Greeks reversed the Egyptian style by putting the walls on the inside, these on the outside columns |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Modern architect Louis Sullivan said each of these should be a "proud & soaring thing" a skyscraper |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $400: St. Peter's is called this, after the Roman halls of justice upon which it was modeled Basilica |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $600: In 1959, the original 24 were removed from the East Front of our nation's capital (the Corinthian) columns |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARCHITECTURE $800: A large chain of U.S. "Inn"s takes its name from this structure similar to a pergola or arbor the Ramada Inn |
| #577, aired 1987-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Due to its classical-style architecture, this capital is called "The Athens of the South" Nashville |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Window that projects outward from a wall, or a body of water that might be seen from it a bay |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Process for making these duplicates of architect's plans was developed 100 years before xerography blueprints |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Due to building with this material, very little Chinese architecture from before 16th c. has survived wood |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Midwest state generally thought to lead all others in contributions to architecture Illinois |
| #448, aired 1986-05-28 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: The U.S pavilion at Expo '67 was contained in this type of structure a geodesic dome |
| #407, aired 1986-04-01 | WORLD CITIES $300: Largest African city west of Egypt, this port has a Spanish name & French architecture Casablanca |
| #399, aired 1986-03-20 | NEIGHBORHOODS $200: Spanish architecture characterizes this city's famed French Quarter New Orleans |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $200: Because the only building material available was mud, Sumerians began baking these bricks |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Albert Speer was his chief architect Adolf Hitler |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Features of one often include a nave, transept, & apse a church |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Reburial of this architect's remains, from Taliesin to Arizona, touched off stormy debate Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #347, aired 1986-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This Roman site, Latin for "large circle" sat 250,000 people the Circus Maximus |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | ARCHITECTURE $200: English style which developed during the reigns of Georges I, II, III & IV Georgian |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | ARCHITECTURE $400: From French meaning "face", it's the face of a building ' the façade |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | ARCHITECTURE $800: German school of architecture mentioned in Tom Wolfe title, "From Our House to..." Bauhaus |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | ARCHITECTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Two of the three Greek orders of architecture (2 of) Doric, Corinthian & Ionic |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | THE RENAISSANCE $400: These "castles" of the Loire valley are examples of French renaissance architecture chateaus |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $200: From Turkish meaning "lighthouse", it's a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque minaret |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Simon Rodia built these fairy-tale structures in a South L.A. ghetto the Watts towers |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Flying buttresses & ribbed vaults characterize this 13 c. style Gothic |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $800: Prior to his '59 death, he was planning a mile-high skyscraper Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: 2 of 3 orders of Greek column styles (2 of) Ionian, Doric, and Corinthian |
