#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $200: One of the most isolated spots on Earth, Bouvet Island lies 1,100 miles north of this continent's Queen Maud Land Antarctica |
#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 |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $600: The Tian Shan Mountains separate Kyrgyzstan from this big neighbor to the south & east China |
#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 |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1000: The British military enclave of Dhekelia lies near the U.N. buffer zone on this Mediterranean island Cyprus |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $400: The first Monday in July is Caricom Day, observed in Barbados, Jamaica & other countries; the "Cari" is for this geographic feature the Caribbean |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $800: September 3 is this Asian island country's Armed Forces Day; some say it'll need its armed forces at some point Taiwan |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: Thais celebrate Buddhist New Year by doing this to each other, with elephants using their trunks to join in bathe, wash (getting wet) |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: One and a half billion Muslims mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with this holiday; fittingly it rhymes with "feed" Eid |
#8802, aired 2023-02-07 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE $4,000 (Daily Double): The temperature during Finland's Midsummer festival is around 210 degrees--OK, inside these, a traditional part of the holiday saunas |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: You can climb Nanga Parbat & Nuptse in this mountain range; bring oxygen the Himalayas |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: In 1726 the governor of Buenos Aires founded this city, now the capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: The alliteratively named Tonga this contains the second-deepest spot on the ocean floor, more than 35,000 feet down trench |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: This ancient Roman road traversed North Central Italy & its name is now paired with Romagna in the name of the region Via Emilia |
#8782, aired 2023-01-10 | AROUND THE GLOBE $7,400 (Daily Double): The most populous city in New Zealand, it hasn't been the capital since 1865 Auckland |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: In 1712, the capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to this port city; in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took power, it was moved back St. Petersburg |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: Carlos Sanchez, a real coffee grower from Antioquia in this country, was an early portrayer of Juan Valdez Colombia |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: The ECB, the European Central Bank, has its headquarters in this German city on the Main River Frankfurt |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: This ancient trade route linking China & the West stretched 4,000 miles from Xi'an in the east to the Mediterranean Sea the Silk Road |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: An attraction on this East African island a bit smaller than Maui is the house where Freddie Mercury lived as a child Zanzibar |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $400: With zero inches of annual precipitation, the McMurdo Dry Valleys on this continent rank as the driest area on Earth Antarctica |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $800: South of Fez is the town of Ifrane, dubbed the Switzerland of this country Morocco |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: In 2021 this capital of Saskatchewan broke a 137-year-old temperature record, dropping to -37.5 degrees Regina |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: One of mountain climbing's Seven Summits, Jaya Peak is on the Indonesian part of this big island New Guinea |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COLD AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: It's permafrosty in this Russian place that's alphabetically last on the traditional Risk board Yakutsk |
#8741, aired 2022-11-14 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $600: This geographical line runs around the globe at approximately 23 degrees 27 minutes south latitude the Tropic of Capricorn |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager Around the World in Eighty Days |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: This verb means to travel completely around the globe circumnavigate |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | STREET ART $800: Cities around the globe have pixel-style street art by Invader, whose name is inspired by this 1970s arcade game Space Invaders |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows Earth on a monitor.) A computer algorithm concluded the longest distance you can walk in a straight line on land is nearly 7,000 miles, from Fujin in China to a point near Sagres in this country Portugal |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: 3 million people live in this Ukrainian city, the largest on the Dnieper River Kiev |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: On its 513th anniversary in 2019, this group in Vatican City donned new helmets that were made of PVC & 3-D printed the Swiss Guard |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1600: In 1541 De Soto may have had a soak in what's now this city at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains Hot Springs, Arkansas |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $2000: 3-letter name of the language you might study before a visit to Vientiane, where it is spoken Lao |
#7706, aired 2018-02-26 | "SMALL" TALK $400: Dolls represent children from around the globe on this Disneyland ride It's a Small World |
#6679, aired 2013-10-03 | WORD PUZZLES $800: Take one to see the globe trip around the world |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $1600: With shows around the globe, this group came a long way from 1987, when 3 bald guys began painting their faces the Blue Man Group |
#6464, aired 2012-10-25 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $1200: In 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston sailed around the world solo & nonstop, earning a trophy called this, like an acting award Golden Globe |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $400: A transparent sphere usually with a Christmas scene inside: shake it again! a snow globe |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $800: Nominated 7 times, Tom Cruise has won 3 of these a Golden Globe |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $1200: Ian Wright is a presenter on this travel show Globe Trekker |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $1600: "Sweet Georgia Brown" is this team's theme song the Harlem Globetrotters |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AROUND THE "GLOBE" $2000: Ellen Goodman won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for her work at this publication The Boston Globe |
#6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Started in 1961 to stop human rights abuses around the globe, this organization lit its first candle the same year Amnesty International |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | YOU DO THE MATH! $800: Traveling exactly twice around the globe means you've traveled this many degrees longitude 720 |
#5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rides in a boat with some SEALs at the Navy Amphibious Bas in Coronado, CA.) Navy SEALs are charged with fighting terrorism around the globe; the first Medal of Honor given for service in this country was to a SEAL for pursuit of a Taliban ally Afghanistan |
#5481, aired 2008-06-09 | FORGOTTEN MUSICALS $1000: Orson Welles & Cole Porter collaborated on a 1946 musical adaptation of this "globe-trotting" Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
#5327, aired 2007-11-06 | MACHU PICCHU $1600: (Alex reports from Machu Picchu in Peru.) Some people believe that lines of energy around the globe come together at special spiritual points called these, like in Sedona, Arizona & here at Machu Picchu vortices (or vortexes) |
#5143, aired 2007-01-10 | "G" WHIZ $800: More than 2,000 newspapers around the globe carry the comic strip featuring this feline Garfield |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | GOVT. ABBR. $600: Providing assistance around the globe:
AID the Agency for International Development |
#4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew traces lines on a globe.) Two of these meet around the poles to form what's called a great circle around the Earth the meridians |
#4517, aired 2004-04-06 | BOOK TITLES $2,400 (Daily Double): After circling the globe between June 23 & July 1, 1931, aviator Wiley Post published a book called this Around the World in Eight Days |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | AROUND THE GLOBE $200: Useful in navigation because it's unaffected by magnetism, a gyrocompass points toward this location North Pole |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: (Clue with the Clue Crew missing because of a tape problem) ----------------------------------- |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | AROUND THE GLOBE $600: By percentage of overall landmass, this 109-acre country is one of the most urbanized nations in the world Vatican City |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: These areas were given a 3-mile limit in 1789 because 3 miles was the maximum distance cannons could fire a shot shorelines |
#4269, aired 2003-03-06 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1000: To avoid storms, planes will often fly in this relatively peaceful atmosphere layer that's just below the mesosphere stratosphere |
#3578, aired 2000-03-08 | SEARCHING THE GLOBE $800: Around 1620 Pietro Della Valle brought to Europe a copy of this script from Behistun in Mesopotamia Cuneiform |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $100: It's the only Canadian province on the Pacific Ocean British Columbia |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $200: Called the "Eighth Natural Wonder of the World", it stretches over 1,250 miles off Australia's east coast the Great Barrier Reef |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $300: Much of Pakistan's trade passes through this largest city's port on the island of Kiamari Karachi |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: The Volga River contributes some 75% of all river water in this, the globe's largest lake the Caspian Sea |
#3531, aired 2000-01-03 | AROUND THE GLOBE $500: In the early 19th century, this capital of French Polynesia became a favorite port of call for South Pacific whalers Papeete |
#3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This imaginary line that circles the globe is also known as 0 degrees latitude the equator |
#2269, aired 1994-06-16 | AVIATION $1000: It wasn't until 1964 that Jerrie Mock became the first woman to do this; Wiley Post did it in 1933 circumnavigate the globe solo |
#1396, aired 1990-10-01 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $100: Jessica Lange won in 1977 for her performance in this film, & we're not monkeying around King Kong |
#662, aired 1987-06-23 | THE MOVIES $100: For the 30th anniversary of this Mike Todd film, "Lifestyles"' Robin Leach circled the globe in 80 hours Around the World in 80 Days |