| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: They're the 2 U.N. member countries in Africa with a cardinal direction in their names South Sudan & South Africa |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $1200: Parts of this coastal city & its suburbs wind up towards & around Table Mountain Cape Town |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This largest lake in Africa is home to more than 200 species of fish, including tilapia (Lake) Victoria |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $800: Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C. Carthage |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: You don't have to go to Antarctica; Boulders Beach in South Africa has the African type of this flightless bird, with pink "eyebrows" penguins |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $1200: A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century coffee |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $1600: In 2010 Philip Beale sailed around Africa in a replica of a vessel used by this renowned ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This 12,000-square-mile plain of East-Central Africa is home to an annual migration of more than a million wildebeest the Serengeti |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $9,800 (Daily Double): In 1497, this man sailed around Africa & with the help of a pilot crossed the Indian Ocean & reached India Vasco da Gama |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | ON EARTH $2000: In 1870 this 4-letter lake in north central Africa covered some 10,800 square miles; today, only around 580 Lake Chad |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This northern city is the most populous capital in Africa Cairo |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2000: This river & its chief tributary, the Vaal, form a drainage basin of around 330,000 square miles in southern Africa the Orange River |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $400: In French, this nation is Afrique du Sud South Africa |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $800: While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova the Roman Empire |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $1600: It's the second-largest desert in Africa the Kalahari |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we're looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter Zambia & Zimbabwe |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $2000: Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914 Egypt |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the landscape and wildlife at the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The wildebeest grazing maintains the grassland & helps keep woods from growing, making the animal a keystone species in this environment around us the savanna |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | NO LONGER AROUND $1600: This province made up the northeastern paart of South Africa until 1994 Transvaal |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This city on the Indian Ocean is "D" chief seaport of South Africa Durban |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $400: Built around 1855, the first railroad in Africa linked Alexandria to this capital 100 miles away Cairo |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | STARTS WITH "J" $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Pretoria, South Africa) Pretoria is known as the city of these trees, which are not native to South Africa, but were imported from South America around 1880 jacaranda |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | SOCCER $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Graze the bottom of the ball on one side to make the ball curve around defenders, with a kick named for this fruit a banana |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $2000: "I presume" Chuma & Susi were the bearers who hauled this missionary around Africa, both alive & dead Dr. Livingstone |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) Zebras spend a lot of time standing around on grassy plains, which would make them seem like easy prey, but to lions, they blend in with tall stalks of grass, because lions have weak color vision due to a shortage of these retinal cells cones |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | LANGUAGES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) With around 180 million speakers worldwide, it's the official language of eight countries, including the five former European colonies highlighted here Portuguese |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $800: Around 2750 B.C. Hannu, an Egyptian, sailed down this sea, reaching what is now Ethiopia & Somalia the Red Sea |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | GLOBE TREKKIN' $200: If Recife, in this S. Am. country, had been around 200 million years ago, you could have walked from it to what's now Africa Brazil |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A kingdom of West Central Africa founded around 1390 is called this, like 2 current countries, but spelled with a K Kongo |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | CAVES $1,000 (Daily Double): Africa's Sterkfontein Caves yielded Mrs. Plesianthropus of this extinct genus, whose name means "southern ape" Australopithecus |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | MUSEUMS $1600: The Nelson Mandela National Museum comprises 3 sites in & around Qunu in this country South Africa |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | AFRICA $2000: Around age 15, boys in this largest tribe in Kenya begin warrior training; at 30, they reach the rank of Elder the Maasai |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Portugal in July 1497, going around Africa & with the help of a pilot from Malindi, this explorer made it to India in 1498 Vasco da Gama |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | CAPITALISM $400: Population 8 million, this capital & largest city in Africa was founded by the Fatimid Dynasty around 968 A.D. Cairo |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ALREADY GONE $1200: The quagga, a type of this equine, was found in Southern Africa until going extinct around 1900 a zebra |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Somalia is on the geographic projection usually called this "of Africa" the horn |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | NOVEL PLACES $1,000 (Daily Double): This work, Jules Verne's first novel, surveys Africa from the air Five Weeks in a Balloon |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | THE WAR YEARS $1000: A series of wars in north Africa & around the Mediterranean:
264-146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | HISTORY $400: Around 600 B.C. some Phoenicians claimed to have sailed around this continent, 2,000 years before the Portuguese Africa |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | BELIEVE $1200: Conquering soldiers brought this young religion to north Africa around 642 A.D. Islam |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU $2000: Around 336 B.C., this "great" king of Macedonia began building an empire from Africa to India Alexander |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In Africa, not far from Lake Victoria, is this lake named for Queen Victoria's husband Lake Albert |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This desert in southern Africa has long been home to the San, or Bushmen Kalahari Desert |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | AMERICAN EXPLORERS $100: From trips there around 1910 to get animals to stuff, Carl Akeley felt this continent's wildlife was doomed Africa |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The largest continent; it's also the continent that's home to the most people Asia |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Efik people of this continent are closely related to the Ibibio Africa |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa Kalahari |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: If you're a native Capetonian, you were born in this country South Africa |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | ANIMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Weighing around a ton, the eland is the largest species of this animal in Africa Antelope |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: An orange tree on this country's coat of arms symbolizes the Orange Free State South Africa |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1497 Bartolomeu Dias accompanied him on part of his journey around Africa to India da Gama |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Table Mountain, near Cape Town in this country, is often enshrined by a cloud called "The Tablecloth" South Africa |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Of the 10 largest countries in area, this is the only one in Africa the Sudan |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Mercato in this Ethiopian capital is one of Africa's biggest open-air markets Addis Ababa |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,500 (Daily Double): Precautions against malaria are advisable when visiting this country's Kruger National Park South Africa |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: A mainland area & 5 small islands make up this "equatorial" country of Africa Equatorial Guinea |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | ROYALTY $600: This country's King Manuel I launched Vasco de Gama on his voyage around Africa in 1497 Portugal |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | NEWSPAPERS $1000: He used his paper "Negro World" to promote his "Back to Africa" movement around 1920 Marcus Garvey |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | EXPLORERS $800: Using prevailing winds, da Gama found faster route around Africa by 1st sailing S.W. to this country Brazil |
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