| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AROUND THE ATLANTIC $400: 20 degrees east longitude is the arbitrarily chosen boundary between the Atlantic & this body of water the Indian Ocean |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: You can enter this body of water via the Strait of Magellan or the Strait of Malacca the Pacific Ocean |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $400: Prior to the 17th century work of William Harvey, it was thought that 2 separate systems distributed this around the body blood |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $4,400 (Daily Double): The largest inland body of water in the world, it's named for an ancient people of Transcaucasia the Caspian Sea |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS $400: Around 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope, used to examine these body parts the eyes |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AROUND THE LAB $400: Some labs have a stab testing machine to help improve this, also something worn by knights of yore body armor |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | BE HOME NOW $800: A monitor letting the justice system know you haven't left home is usually attached around this body part an ankle |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $800: The body of this crawler is composed of around 15 to 180 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair modified into poison fangs centipede |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: By a 2018 treaty this large body into which the Volga flows was deemed neither a lake nor a sea, but a body with special legal status the Caspian |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $400: The "Hyster-" in hysterectomy indicates that it's the removal of this body part the uterus |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $800: These arteries that supply blood to the heart itself take their name from the Latin for "crown" the coronary arteries |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: A full set of adult human teeth includes this many canines four |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $2,000 (Daily Double): This long bone between the acetabulum & the patella can resist a force of 2,500 pounds the femur |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: The second-largest part of the human brain, it's involved with balance the cerebellum |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AROUND THE BODY $200: Remove the epi- from the outermost layer of skin to get this middle layer the dermis |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AROUND THE BODY $400: When you inhale, this dome-shaped muscle contracts & moves downward, allowing your lungs to expand the diaphragm |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AROUND THE BODY $600: The heart is divided into these 4 chambers abbreviated RA, LA, RV & LV right atrium, left atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AROUND THE BODY $800: Helping you to get off your butt or to climb the stairs is this large muscle whose name means "largest butt" the gluteus maximus |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: The heart hangs inside a protective sac called this, from the Greek for "around the heart" pericardium |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $400: It's the more common name for the female gonads ovaries |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $800: Arranged in 2 rows, 8 small carpal bones make up this part of the body the wrist |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents a diagram of a tooth on the monitor.) Between a tooth's enamel & the pulp is this hard, yellow, sensitive layer of tissue that makes up the bulk of the tooth the dentin |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: The left one of these arteries originates over the heart & supplies blood to the head & neck the carotid arteries |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AROUND THE BODY $3,000 (Daily Double): Named for the way they release secretions, they're the body's 2 main types of glands exocrine and endocrine |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: In Russia if you're kidding me, you're hanging noodles from my ears; we use this idiom related to a lower paired body part you're pulling my leg |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | WATERWORKS $2000: (Kelly shows an image of a dam on the monitor.) To relieve pressure on dams, when the body of water they restrain becomes full, these passages are fashioned to allow water to go over, around or through the dam spillways |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | HAS GOOD BONES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew show an anatomical illustration on the monitor.) Perhaps from an ancient belief that it was the bone around which a body would be resurrected, the triangular bone at the base of the spine in connecting with the pelvis has this name meaning "holy" sacrum |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | BODY PARTS IN SONG $400: In 1984 the Police told of being "Wrapped Around Your" this finger |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $800: If you are in the U.K. or Ireland, you'll find this men's body spray is called Lynx Axe |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) In humans, the central nervous system consists of the brain & this long cable of nerves the spinal cord |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $800: For the most part, these are composed of dentin, which is harder than bone teeth |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: Over most of the body, this outermost layer of skin is about as thick as a sheet of paper the epidermis |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: 2 coronary these supply blood to the heart muscle arteries |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: This spongy substance that fills the bones produces the body's blood cells marrow |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $200: This joint has a type of macaroni named for it the elbow |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $400: If you're giving someone your full attention, you're "all" these ears |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $800: This "in" word means the upper surface of the foot between the toes & the ankle instep |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): The system inside these organs is commonly called the bronchial tree lungs |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $1000: If you want to be formal about it, "vermiform" comes before the name of this probably useless organ the appendix |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "S" $1200: This wrestling hold secured by clasping the legs around an opponent's body has the name of an office implement scissors |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | FROM THE MALAY $100 (Daily Double): From Malay for "sheath", it's a Malay garment that's wrapped around the lower body & tucked in at the waist a sarong |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $400: Savor the difference, girls; there are more of these receptors in a woman's mouth than in a man's taste buds |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $800: Digestion happens in the small one of these, which is linked to the stomach, & in the large one that comes next intestine |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: This, skin drying & cracking due to cold & wind, can affect wrists & foreheads too, but lips seem to get it worst chapping |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: These 2 folds of tissue vibrate like strings to produce sound when you talk vocal cords |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: Babies have flat feet; the bones in the middle of the foot gradually rise to form this an arch |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | BODY PARTS $1000: When used normally, a garrote fits snugly around this part of the victim's body neck |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | I NEED SOME SPACE $200: The first photo of this heavenly body was a daguerreotype made by John William Draper around 1839 the moon |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: This term for someone hired to do small jobs around the house contains a body part a handyman |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates what she is describing in the clue.) If you close your eyes, place your finger lightly on your eyelid, & move your eye, you'll feel the bulge of this, the outer layer of the eye the cornea |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $800: The system inside these organs is commonly called the "bronchial tree" the lungs |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: Skeletal muscle is also called striated muscle; another muscle type does not appear striated, giving it this name smooth muscle |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: The hip is this type of joint that allows rotary motion a ball & socket joint |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | AROUND THE BODY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When an injury like a cut is sustained, these blood cells change shape, become sticky, build up on the wound & form a plug platelets |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) The joint in your neck that allows you to move your head from side to side is classified as this type, which rotates around a central axis a pivot joint |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | FRONTWORDS & BACKWORDS $800: A part of the body where the food goes; flip it around, it's a ship that tows gut/tug |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | KILLER "AP"s $2000: It's the point farthest from the Earth in the orbit of a body traveling around it apogee |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: Around 400 B.C. the Greek Ctesias described it as having a white body with a straight cubit-long horn a unicorn |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | 2006 NEWS $1600: IAU Resolution 5A defined this 2-word term as a body "that has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit" a dwarf planet |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | WHO THE "H" ARE YOU? $2000: During the Trojan War, Achilles defiantly dragged this dead prince's body around the walls of the besieged city Hector |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $400: The central nervous system of the body consists of the spinal cord & this organ the brain |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $800: These teeth are named for their resemblance to a dog's sharp teeth the canines |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): Some 2 million nephrons in this pair of organs filter about 180 liters of blood each day kidneys |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: Eating quickly can cause these diaphragm spasms--Boo! hiccups |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: The choroid, or middle coat of the eyeball, is the part from which this sometimes detaches the retina |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AROUND THE BODY $400: The superior colliculus in the brain controls this action you try to avoid in a staring contest blinking |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AROUND THE BODY $800: You'll find the lingual nerve on the floor of this part of the body the mouth |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AROUND THE BODY $1200: Christmas & Von Willebrand's are 2 less common forms of this disease that keeps blood from clotting hemophilia |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AROUND THE BODY $1600: In the hand, these are in self-lubricating sheaths to protect them from friction against the bones tendons |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AROUND THE BODY $2000: Latin for "bridge", it arches over the medulla oblongata with which it makes up the brain stem the pons |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | ENDS IN "I" $600: In India, most women wear this outer garment that consists of a piece of cloth that's draped around the body a sari |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | AROUND THE YEAR $400: Unlike Christmas, Easter changes its date yearly, because it's based on this heavenly body the Moon |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | I NEED MY SPACE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) From the Latin for "wheel track", it's the path a body follows around a larger body, like a planet around the sun orbit |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | AROUND THE GYM $1000: Named for its inventor, this trendy, new "method" of body conditioning actually dates back to the 1920s Pilates |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $400: Around 300 A.D. Christianity's main rival was the worship of Mithra, god of this heavenly body sun |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | NEW COACHING SIGNS $1000: Appropriately, twisting my hair around around my finger would be the signal for this body-building exercise curling |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | BIRDS $600: During mating season the male ruff develops a large frill of feathers around this body part neck |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | GERMAN SCIENCE $200: Around 1850 Helmholtz clocked impulses moving along these body parts at about 90 feet per second the nerves |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | STATELY REBUSES $800: The astral glow around your body has vanished Oregon |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | VISIBLE BODY PARTS $400: On a man whose shirt size is 16-34, this part of his body is 16 inches around the neck |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | ANATOMY CLASS $1000: Helped by axons & dendrites, nerve cells called these conduct impulses around the body neurons |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | WHERE'S THE BODY? AUTHOR'S EDITION $700 (Daily Double): Stores around the town square of Oxford, Mississippi closed during his funeral at St. Peter's Cemetery William Faulkner |
| #3748, aired 2000-12-13 | SCI FIDELITY $400: Join the club! Pod people start replacing everyone around Kevin McCarthy in this scary big screener from Don Siegel Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | PHYSICS $200: The point around which a body's weight is evenly balanced is called its center of mass or of this Gravity |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | AROUND THE BODY $200: A big broken one of these may be stabilized by an intramedullary rod Bone |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | AROUND THE BODY $400: Hearing happens in the cochlea; your sense of this in the nearby semicircular canals & vestibule Balance |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | AROUND THE BODY $800: In the duodenum, your stomach contents mix with juices from the liver, gallbladder & this organ Pancreas |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | AROUND THE BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take a deep breath & name the only artery that carries deoxygenated blood Pulmonary artery |
| #3062, aired 1997-12-16 | AROUND THE BODY $1000: Above the larynx, this 3-segment passage leads from the back of the nose down to the esophagus Pharynx |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | THAT'S A WRAP! $300: 15 to 21 feet long, it wraps around the body of a woman in India Sari |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | SCIENCE $300: Around 1840 chemist John William Draper took the first photograph of this heavenly body the moon |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | BIOLOGY $200: These body cavities can contain blood or can be hollow, as in the bones around the nose sinuses |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | THE COAT CLOSET $300: It's an evening coat that wraps around the body like the larval moth covering of the same name a cocoon (coat) |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | 19th CENTURY FASHION $100: Part of the body around which a cravat is worn the neck |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THE 9 WORTHIES $400: Hector was a chieftan of this ancient city around whose walls his body was dragged Troy |
| #2047, aired 1993-06-29 | BIOLOGY $800: Common "colorful" term for the eythrocytes, which transport oxygen around the body the red blood cells |
| #2032, aired 1993-06-08 | GEMS & JEWELRY $200: Unlike most bracelets, a slave bracelet is often worn around this body part the ankle |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | INDIA $200: Most Indian women wear this garment, a straight piece of cloth draped around the body as a long dress a sari |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: From the Greek for "around the heart", it's the thin, membranous sac that surrounds the heart the pericardium |
| #1663, aired 1991-11-20 | SCIENCE $100: This can be the path of one heavenly body around another or of an electron around a nucleus an orbit |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | SCIENCE $400: Term the path one body follows around a larger body, like the Moon around the Earth an orbit |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | FASHION $100: A cummerbund is worn around this part of the body the waist |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | THE BODY HUMAN $800: The first part of the small intestine loops around this organ which produces insulin the pancreas |
| #1393, aired 1990-09-26 | THE BODY HUMAN $800: The first part of the small intestine loops around this organ which produces insulin the pancreas |
| #1326, aired 1990-05-14 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Also called a helicon, this 3-valve tuba wraps around the player's body & has a flaring bell Sousaphone |
| #1067, aired 1989-04-04 | FASHION HISTORY $400: In olden days, women wound their wimples around this part of the body head |
| #760, aired 1987-12-18 | VOCABULARY $300: Part of the body where a Scotsman wears his glengarry his head |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | REMAKES $300: In both '56 & '78 versions of this, Kevin McCarthy ran around hollering, "They're here! You're next!!" Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #630, aired 1987-05-08 | AROUND THE HOUSE $300: Rescinding a 19th c. ban, a new rule allows House members to mention this "other body" by name Senate |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | MYSTICISM $400: The radiated light around your body which can be seen by certain attuned people your aura |
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