| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $400: A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Unlike its larger neighbor to the west, Switzerland still uses this as its monetary unit a franc |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: On this November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Part of a British overseas territory, this huge limestone monolith is a habitat for Europe's only wild monkey, the Barbary ape the Rock of Gibraltar |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: China's longest river, it's also the longest river in Asia the Yangtze |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: You can get a good feeling for Denmark, literally, with a this & happiness tour, this being a Danish concept for coziness & comfort hygge |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Well-preserved sections of it run about 5,500 miles from Mount Hu near Dandong to Jiayu Pass in the Gansu province the Great Wall of China |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: To the north, Minnesota is bordered by Manitoba & this other province Ontario |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This largest city in Uganda was originally built on 7 hills at about 4,000 feet up Kampala |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Once you come ashore from this gulf, you can enjoy the delights of Haiphong the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The name of this fortress in Granada, Spain gets its name from Arabic for "the red one" the Alhambra |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Geneva Free Port, a giant warehouse complex in this nation, houses an estimated 1.2 million works of art Switzerland |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Explore the cobblestone streets of this historic city on the Tagus River & visit the El Greco Museum Toledo |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The Mount Athos area in Greece has monasteries that still follow this calendar that preceded the Gregorian Julian |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Until a Bangladesh-India deal, Dahala Khagrabari was a "3rd-order" this unit within foreign soil, lying within another within a 3rd an enclave |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1000: In 1579, during his circumnavigation of the world, he dropped anchor near San Francisco & claimed the region for England Drake |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $1000: Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 Lascaux |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $2000: Channels called these ways take water around a dam when the reservoir is full spillways |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | AMPHIBIANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Although this "biblical" frog is the world's largest at around 12 inches long, its tadpoles are the same size as other frogs' a goliath frog |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SECONDS $800: From 1577 to 1580 he commanded the second voyage ever to go around the world Drake |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $400: Annie Londonderry inspired the 2021 novel "Spin", about her historic 19th-century trip around the world on one of these bicycle |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Title for Sir Francis Drake, due to a specific feat he accomplished in 1580 a circumnavigator |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $200: Aruba is a mecca for this board & sail sport & hosts an annual event with long distance & slalom competitions windsurfing |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: This racket sport named for what the soft rubber balls do when hit against a wall is popular in Bermuda squash |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $600: The Clericus Cup is a soccer tournament for teams around this tiny state Vatican City |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: This ancient sport also known as hawking is still popular in Saudi Arabia falconry |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): A combination of sport, dance & martial art, capoeira is popular in this country where it was created Brazil |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | AROUND THE HORN $5,400 (Daily Double): An around-the-world yacht race that requires sailors to round Cape Horn awards a trophy named for this author Jules Verne |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $1000: In 1989 Barbie became an ambassador for this U.N. agency that helps children around the world UNICEF |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $800: I found my thrill on Parliament Hill in this city with a visit to the Canadian Senate chamber Ottawa |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1200: The Georgian city of Batumi dates from around 1000 B.C. & is an important port on this sea the Black Sea |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | WORLD OF RELIGION $1000: The building of the Golden Temple in Amritsar was launched around 1604 by Arjan, the fifth guru of this religion Sikhism |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $600: She began kicking around in 1985, won a couple of World Cups & was Sports Illustrated's 2019 Sportsperson of the Year Megan Rapinoe |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $600: Though my memory is Fogg-y, that guy may have a serious gambling problem; far to travel & under 3 months to do it... go! Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #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 |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The 10th century Caliphate city of Medina Azahara in this European nation was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018 Spain |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Man Mo Temple is not just a Buddhist temple; it is named for two gods of this philosophy many in Hong Kong follow as well Taoism |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1898 the Rough Riders charged up Kettle Hill as well as this more famous one in Cuba San Juan Hill |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Of the 7 countries whose names end in "-stan", it's alphabetically last Uzbekistan |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | IMPOSTORS $1600: After the French Revolution, people all around the world claimed to be the "Lost" this, the son of Marie-Antoinette the (Lost) Dauphin |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $200: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument organ pipes |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $400: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray quicksand |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug" Kidd |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo (Buckminster) Fuller |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Majolikahaus is one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth" Jugendstil |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $1000: Burbank grew around Lockheed, maker of this fighter that took part in World War II's first shoot-down of a German plane by an American one the P-38 (Lightning) |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: The lasting legacy of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent includes the wall around the Old City of this world capital Jerusalem |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: You can gaze upon many masterpieces at this museum & former royal residence on the Rue de Rivoli the Louvre |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the last name of tennis player Naomi as well as the Honshu city where she was born Osaka |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Mya Thein Tan, one of these towering shrines in Myanmar, is built to resemble Mount Meru, sacred to Buddhists a pagoda |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Ushuaia, the southernmost city in Argentina, is in this archipelago with a fiery name the Tierra del Fuego |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): The book "Noah's Flood" proposed that the event happened when the Mediterranean burst into this sea 7,600 years ago the Black Sea |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $400: He rode a chariot pulled by fiery horses & brought daylight to the world; now he's a superchamp riding trotters in Yonkers Apollo |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: She had completed some 22,000 miles of a 29,000-mile trip around the world when she disappeared in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #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 |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $200: "Quantum of Solace" finds this hero battling corporate environmental plundering around the world & in the Bolivian desert (James) Bond |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | THE TANGLED WEB $2000: radio.garden lets you sample radio stations from around the world, like Radio Carnaval Tenerife in this island chain the Canary Islands |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | A PARLIAMENT OF VOWELS $1200: Founded around 930 on a North Atlantic island:
AI the Althing |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $1200: In 2018 one of this American aerospace company's Falcon rockets placed a Tesla roadster in orbit around the Sun SpaceX |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $1500: The HST, this space telescope, was placed in orbit around Earth in 1990 & soon revolutionized astronomy the Hubble |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $200: In this country you might ask "Where's the beef?" because there isn't any but there is dosa masala on a bun India |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $400: In Hawaii you can start off your day with a platter of eggs, rice & this meat brand from a can Spam |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $600: At McDonald's in Canada, you'll of course find this dish of French fries covered with gravy & cheese curds poutine |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $800: At the Macca's, as they call it Down Under, this traditional savory spread has been offered with an English muffin Vegemite |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Breakfast in Venezuela includes cheese these, Spanish-named turnovers empanadas |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line a mug shot heard around the world |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | GAME ON $500: Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar darts |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $800: You'll wait a bit for xenon-124 to decay; this stat bangs in around 18 sextillion years, or 18, then 7 sets of 3 zeroes half-life |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: Deltiology is the hobby of collecting these greetings from around the world postcards |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1200: Before his untimely death, he took TV viewers into "Parts Unknown" to explore food & culture around the world Anthony Bourdain |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $400: This apostle & letter writer was a tent maker by trade, so he moved easily around the ancient world with tools & cloth Paul |
| #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 |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Modern-day Druids visit this Mystic circle north of Salisbury, England that's thousands of years old Stonehenge |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This ancient Israeli fortress was the site of a 1st century siege after the fall of Jerusalem the Masada |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Rio de Janeiro is home to this soccer stadium that held its second World Cup final in 2014 Maracana |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The northern lights are cool, but at Mt. Wellington in Tasmania, you can see the southern lights, also called the "aurora" this australis |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | AVIATORS $400: In 1999 it took Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones just under 20 days to fly nonstop around the world in one of these a hot air balloon |
| #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 |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $800: In 1936, Beryl Markham was the first woman to achieve this solo flying east to west; Lindbergh had gone the easy way crossing the Atlantic |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1600: It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great the Persian Empire |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Built in what's now this country in the 300s B.C. & still in use today, the theater at Epidaurus seats about 13,000 Greece |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Named for a European queen, Charlotte Amalie is the capital city of this U.S. possession east of Puerto Rico the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: It's about a 2-hour ferry ride from this island to Dar es Salaam Zanzibar |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The nation's leading financial center, this northern Italian city is the capital of the Lombardy region Milan |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): More than 20,000 acres & with at least 100 artesian springs, Al-Ahsa Oasis is this nation's largest natural oasis Saudi Arabia |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | 1870s LITERATURE $800: Phileas Fogg bets fellow London clubmen that he can succeed at this title challenging task go around the world in 80 days |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | SCIENTIFIC CANADIAN $2000: JFK honored the FDA's Frances Kelsey for blocking the US release of this pregnancy drug that caused birth defects around the world thalidomide |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: A package deal of mainland turf & an island, this Canadian province uses the postal abbreviation NL Newfoundland and Labrador |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The highest spot from the center of the Earth is the top of Mount Chimborazo, near the equator in this nation Ecuador |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's surrounded by another nation, but this African kingdom is largely cut off from it by high mountain ranges Lesotho |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The 47 large administrative regions of this Asian country aren't called provinces or states but prefectures Japan |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $6,600 (Daily Double): This island capital is said to have been founded in the 9th century by the Viking Ingólfur Arnarson Reykjavik |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Italy's longest river, the Po flows about 400 miles from the Alps into this arm of the Mediterranean the Adriatic |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The flag of this Southeast Asian nation of 103 million is seen here Vietnam |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Norway's main Antarctic research station bears the name of this mythic creature of Scandinavian folklore a troll |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,600 (Daily Double): 11,200-foot Mount Koussi in northern Chad is the highest summit in this area of more than 3 million square miles the Sahara Desert |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country Basra |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $400: In 2021 France lost about 7' of country after a farmer in this North Sea nation to the north moved a stone marker Belgium |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $800: Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital Topeka |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $1200: In 2021, National Geographic recognized a fifth ocean, the one seen here, by calling it this directional name the Southern Ocean |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $1600: Considered Japan's mainland, this island has more than 6,000 miles of coastline Honshu |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS $2000: Here is Stromboli, an Italian volcano off Sicily, actively volcanoing into this sea of the Mediterranean the Tyrrhenian Sea |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $800: This company's "Imagine Cup" allows students around the world to compete in technology-based competitions Microsoft |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Hydra & Zakynthos are 2 of the around 200 inhabited islands of this European nation Greece |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MODERN FOLK HEROES $800: Famous around the world, this man who died in 1973 created his own martial art, jeet kune do Bruce Lee |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $200: When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour St. Peter's |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $400: You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer" Cooperstown |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $600: Picasso's "Guernica" is in this capital, where it was sent only after democracy had returned Madrid |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $800: The 1,500-foot Petronas Towers are linked via a skybridge between floors 41 & 42 in this Malaysian city Kuala Lumpur |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The 12,000-square-mile Great Bear Lake straddles the Arctic circle in this "directional" political unit the Northwest Territories |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $6,000 (Daily Double): In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world (Sir Francis) Drake |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $400: Mt. Buller in the state of Victoria is one of this country's most popular ski resorts Australia |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $800: With tricky turns in 85-mile-per-hour speeds, the Streif course in the Tyrolean Alps of Kitzbühel in this country provides a challenge Austria |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $1200: You might see the Sahara from the slopes of Morocco's Mount Toubkal in this range the Atlas Mountains |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Furano is part of the powder belt of ski resorts on this northern Japanese island Hokkaido |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SKIING AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): Soldeu, El Tarter & Pas de la Casa are part of a big ski resort in this tiny European nation Andorra |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $1,200 (Daily Double): This city can be said to be twice on the Mediterranean coast; one as a world capital, the other in Lebanon Tripoli |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | MAGAZINES $600: Found in doctors' offices around the world, this kids' magazine that provides "Fun with a Purpose" turned 75 in 2021 Highlights |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $200: The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District still has 35 structures that date back to around 1900 in this mammoth national park Yellowstone |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | TRIPLE ALLITERATION $400: Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet the World Wide Web |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $600: This newswoman chronicled her 1889-1890 adventures in the book "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" Nellie Bly |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Around 1979 this Mexican state on the Pacific dropped "Norte" from its name Baja |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $400: "Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had traveled constantly eastward" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Bartolomeo Cristofori's invention of this instrument was music to the world's ears around 1700 the piano |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The university of this city is the largest in Serbia Belgrade |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Canada's southernmost point lies on Middle Island in this Great Lake (Lake) Erie |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The spectacular Dynjandi waterfall is a highlight of the West Fjords Peninsula in this island nation Iceland |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Cotopaxi, meaning "shining peak", is an active volcano in this South American nation Ecuador |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): This African capital due south of Sicily got its name from a region with 3 ancient Phoenician cities Tripoli |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Tuxtla Gutierrez is the capital city of Chiapas, the southernmost state in this nation Mexico |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: These 2 largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea are both autonomous regions of Italy Sicily & Sardinia |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Where's the beef? One place is this city of 1.6 million on Osaka Bay Kobe |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This ecologically vital region also called the Selva reaches its northern limits in Colombia & Venezuela the Amazon rainforest |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Dagestan is between the Caspian Sea on its east & this independence-seeking Russian Republic to its west Chechnya |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | WORLD OF EMPIRES $800: Around 27 B.C., the Pax Romana began during the reign of this emperor & would last for 200 years Caesar Augustus |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1600: If you are on this Indonesian island around the Hindu new year, you may not be able to leave your hotel during Nyepi, the day of silence Bali |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Referring to semi-arid bush country, it's the term for remote & largely uninhabited interior regions of Australia the Outback |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This "diabolical" landmark climbs 1,200 feet above the Belle Fourche River Valley in the Black Hills Devils Tower |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The Iguacu Falls extend for nearly 2 miles along the border between Brazil & this other nation Argentina |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The fourth-most populous of the British Isles is this holiday isle off the south coast of England the Isle of Wight |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): Latvia is wedged in the middle of these two other Baltic republics Estonia & Lithuania |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: Dartmouth, England has a memorial to the American role in this WWII invasion for which it was a major launching point D-Day |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape Casablanca |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The naval monument in this British territory at the entrance to the Mediterranean is known as the American Steps Gibraltar |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $1600: There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium Flanders |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This nation mainly of ethnic Albanians put up a statue of Pres. Clinton for helping it declare itself independent of Serbia Kosovo |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THE 2021 WORLD ALMANAC $1000: It sounds fishy, but there are still $10,000 bills floating around with him, Lincoln's treasury secretary, on the front Salmon Chase |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: Once with 20,000 people watching from all around, this type of arena in Pompeii is the oldest surviving one in the Roman world an amphitheater |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $600: To promote his album "The Life of Pablo", this rapper opened a series of pop-up stores around the world Kanye West |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | THE BIRDS $200: The world's largest bird's egg is this one's, reaching 6 inches around & 3 pounds an ostrich |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: As reaffirmed by a 2011 referendum, Italy is the only G7 country that produces no electricity through this method nuclear power |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Embedded with stones that glow in the dark, the Van Gogh Path in the Netherlands was inspired by this painting Starry Night |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: What became this South African city started in 1652 as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station Cape Town |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: After the Canboulay Riots of the 1880s, the British banned traditional drums on Trinidad, leading to the creation of these from oil drums steel drums |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: When artist Edi Rama became mayor of this Albanian capital, he had many of the drab buildings repainted in bright colors Tirana |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | HISTORY OF FLIGHT $800: In 1986 an aircraft called Voyager became the first in history to fly non-stop around the world without having to do this refuel |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | A TRIP TO -BURG -TON -VILLE $3,000 (Daily Double): If you like your Christmas days around 90 degrees, then this world capital, home to the U. of the West Indies, is for you Kingston (Jamaica) |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $600: In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created Around the World in 80 Days |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Named for the man whose ship visited the region in 1770, the Cook Strait separates the 2 main islands of this nation New Zealand |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The highest point on this Indonesian island is Mount Agung, known as "the navel of the world" Bali |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The famed canals shine for the Light Festival held in winter in this city of Western Europe Amsterdam |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Alberta & 2 others are collectively called these "Provinces" & are the great grain-producing region of Canada the Prairies |
| #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 |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Windrush, Evenlode & Cherwell are tributaries of this English river the Thames |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The name of this Mexican city may be derived from a ranch in the area whose name translates to "Aunt Jane" Tijuana |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The name of this Iraqi city means "gift of God" or "founded by God" Baghdad |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This 1,500-mile mountain chain separates the Mediterranean basin from the Sahara the Atlas Mountains |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): This largest Alaskan island is home to the largest type of grizzly bear Kodiak |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Formerly a royal hunting preserve, this 350-acre London park was the location of the Great Exhibition in 1851 Hyde Park |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The biblical city of Ephesus & the World War I battlefield of Gallipoli are both found in this country Turkey |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: A 60-foot Gigantor robot was built in this Japanese city as a symbol of hope & strength following the 1995 earthquake there Kobe |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $8,200 (Daily Double): The currency sometimes called the NIS, or new Israeli this, has been used since the mid-1980s a shekel |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Air and Space Museums's Milestones of Flight Hall is filled with historic crafts, like this plane that made headlines around the world in the spring of 1927 the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES $400: Tricks you can quickly learn to do with a yo-yo include "Around the World" & this one popular with Rovers & Fidos Walk the Dog |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that's an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965 Around the World in Eighty Days of Our Lives |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $1600: A tributary of the Rhine, the Aare River wraps around this city on three sides in a canton of the same name Bern |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | IT'S THE WORLD ECONOMY $800: Cambodia has one of the world's lowest rates of this, around 0.2%, but many workers struggle to make ends meet unemployment |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | AROUND THE GARDEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Charles Darwin called this "divine" carnivorous plant of the Americas one of the most wonderful plants in the world a Venus flytrap |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This chain of North American lakes covers an area larger than the United Kingdom the Great Lakes |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This African cape was thought to be a sign of a sea route to India from Europe, hence its name the Cape of Good Hope |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It was the capital of Poland for several hundred years until 1596 Krakow |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The co-princes of this tiny country in the Pyrenees are the French president & the Bishop of Urgell Andorra |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: One of Asia's most vulnerable rainforests is in the mountains of Cambodia named for this spice that also starts with the letter C cardamom |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In 2019 India's Supreme Court ruled that a barrier for these huge animals be demolished, as they had the "first right" in forests elephants |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: It's estimated that in Finland, population 5.5 million, there are between 2 & 3 million of these steamy rooms a sauna |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In Guatemala this is the holiday to eat a 50-ingredient salad called fiambre at the graves of loved ones Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Chapel of St. John in the north of this country is quaint when framed with the Dolomites in the background Italy |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): The 3 T's in Chinese censorship are Taiwan, Tibet & this locale made infamous in 1989 Tiananmen Square |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $1200: 2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world" the Patriot Act |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | GENETIC DISORDERS $1200: Duchenne MD--MD short for this--is an inherited disorder that affects about 1 in 3,500 male births around the world muscular dystrophy |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Not only is it the world's smallest ocean, it's also the shallowest the Arctic |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney Qantas |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts cashews |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The name of this people of Kenya precedes "Mara" in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions Masai |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: "B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions the Bosporus |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $200: This biblical man's pudding, first made when the waters subsided, is eaten by Turkish Muslims on Ashura Noah |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $400: This spring holiday honors a Mexican army victory over French forces in 1862 Cinco de Mayo |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $600: For more than 200 years, Spain has made people rich on Christmas with the Lotería de this Navidad |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $800: In the Pyrenees, the Candlemas bear was the more ferocious predecessor of this U.S. rodent the groundhog |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Not a Halloween tradition, English Jack o' Lents were made on this mid-week Christian holiday Ash Wednesday |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | DRAWING QUITE THE CROWD $1000: In 2018 around 1.7 million people trekking from all over the world made this pilgrimage to Mecca the Hajj |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: One of the largest temples of this religion spreads over 156 acres at Srirangam in Tamil Nadu state Hinduism |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Here's this Venezuelan landmark named for the American pilot who spotted it in 1933 Angel Falls |
| #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 |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: One place that's a cut above to see the northern lights is this capital of Canada's Northwest Territories Yellowknife |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $13,600 (Daily Double): This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included "de Grâce" Le Havre |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | PROTESTS $2000: AKA Workers' Day & observed around the world each spring, in 2019 it featured protests for minimum wage raises & shorter shifts May Day |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1543 the world revolved around this man who wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" Copernicus |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Countries with flags of only these 2 colors include Greece, Honduras & Israel blue & white |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Europe's oldest, the university of this "meaty" Italian city was founded in 1088 Bologna |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The only land border between the Netherlands & France is on this 34-square-mile Caribbean island split between them Saint Martin |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial that depicts an albatross on this Chilean cape is dedicated to the sailors who lost their lives in the Southern Ocean Cape Horn |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Occupied in parts by three nations, this former kingdom is home to the ninth highest peak on Earth Kashmir |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | NELLIE BLY $2,000 (Daily Double): While famously going around the world in 72 days, Bly met this author who told her how her route differed from Phileas Fogg's Jules Verne |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $1600: In an episode on "Bikes" I visited a company that uses a special wind tunnel to help design the most efficient competitive sports bikes where it's all about this, the science of the way air moves around objects aerodynamics |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $1600: 1873: "Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SNAILS $1000: Tasmania produces around 25% of the world's wild caught supply of this large edible sea snail, mainly the black lip variety abalone |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The 3,000-room Royal Palace in this city is the official residence of the Spanish royal family, but they don't live there Madrid |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Trying to burn out excess methane in a Turkmenistan crater in 1971, Soviets made the Door to this 4-letter place, & it burns today Hell |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: These 2 colorful rivers join together just north of Khartoum, Sudan the Blue & White Nile |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A bridge built to give the feeling of walking through the hands of God is at Bà Nà Hills, founded by French colonists in this country Vietnam |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Studying the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms in 1877, Charles Darwin dug holes in Salisbury Plain at this landmark Stonehenge |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE $800: "The hand that" does this "rules the world" rock the cradle |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | IN THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK $400: The principal won't give back this toy--she doesn't care how well a kid can "rock the baby" or "around the world" a yo-yo |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Chapter 1 of this Verne novel informs us that in 1872 Phileas Fogg lived on Saville Row Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | TV SHOWS BY COUPLE $1000: Cory & Topanga, the first time around Boy Meets World |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $1200: Around 539 B.C. Cyrus the Great of this land conquered Babylon, the greatest city of the ancient world Persia |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $1200: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) George Gershwin drew musical inspiration from the real world sounds around him; the wild car horns of the Etoile & the Arc de Triomphe are captured in this work An American in Paris |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | SOME SCIENCE, THEN DEATH $2000: His first law of planetary motion details elliptical orbits around the Sun; the world stopped revolving around him in 1630 Kepler |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Intricate tile mosaics decorate the 14th century Iranian Mihrab, a niche in the wall in the mosque that indicates the direction of this city, which Muslims face when praying Mecca |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) A building, its setting, and its furnishings were inextricably related for this architect, who designed the prairie-style room and all of its furniture, which is placed exactly as he intended it Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Likely designed by Hans Holbein the Younger, a suit of armor from 1527 is thought to be this king's; in contrast is the suit of armor he wore when he was overweight and crippled with gout King Henry VIII |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Spiritual forces can be contained or released by nkisi n'kondi, or a power figure carved by these Bantu-speaking people whose name is on an African river and two African republics the Congolese (people of the Congo) |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Italian artist Antonio Canova created a model of neoclassical beauty with this sculpture of this Greek hero, sword in one hand, and in the other, Medusa's just-severed head Perseus |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | NOT FOR PROFIT $800: Fighting abuses around the world, HRW stands for this watch Human Rights Watch |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $200: To pull off the title of this Jules Verne novel, you'd have to average about 13 miles an hour Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $600: She was going to fly westward around the world, Pacific first, but an accident taking off from Honolulu made her switch Amelia Earhart |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | DOUBLE TALK $600: Popular toy that you can take "around the world" a yo-yo |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $1000: Around the world, what we call Diet Coke is known as Coca-Cola this 5-letter word light |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | WHAT TREE AM I? $400: With around 70% of the global total, Quebec leads the world in producing the sweet treat made from me the maple tree |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Around 1310 Pope Clement V, moved the papacy from Italy to this French city & it stayed there for almost 70 years Avignon |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A nonfiction bestseller about death rituals around the world shares its title with this James Jones novel From Here to Eternity |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $1600: Francois Garbart holds the record for doing this solo, just under 43 days--an average of 27.2 knots sailing around the world |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $2000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Back around World War I when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Souza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of World War I Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | 10,000 MANIAC $1000: Ten Thousand Villages, selling goods by artisans around the world, sprang from these religious -ites in the Eastern U.S. Mennonites |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | DISNEYLAND: YESTERDAY & TODAY $600: Original attractions from 1955 that are still around include Autopia & this boat ride in Adventure Land the Jungle Cruise |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | JEEPARDY $1600: After World War II, Jeeps were sold to farmers as "The All-Around Farm Work" this; one Jeep could do the work of 2 a horse |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | "SMALL" TALK $400: Dolls represent children from around the globe on this Disneyland ride It's a Small World |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD $400: This name for a legislature comes from a word meaning discussion & was first used for after-dinner talks of monks parliament |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD $800: General secretary is considered China's most powerful post since this title held by Mao was abolished in 1982 chairman |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In Germany the 2 houses of government are the Bundesrat & this similarly named lower chamber the Bundestag |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD $1600: PAEC is Pakistan this government Commission; it was founded in 1956, 10 years after the American AEC Atomic Energy Commission |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The government of this African country was established by the terms of its 2011 transitional constitution South Sudan |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $1600: She was first naked in the world sometime around 1912; getting naked later led to a 1959 Broadway musical based on her life Gypsy Rose Lee |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $200: If someone gets upset in France, this condiment "got up his nose"--Dijon, I expect mustard |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Cheyenne ask, "are you still riding the goat?" to see if you are still on the outs with this person your wife |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $600: In the U.S. someone frantic has his hair in this state; in China the same thing happens to the eyebrows on fire |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IDIOMS AROUND THE WORLD $800: When someone dies in Denmark, he is said to have taken off these wooden shoes clogs |
| #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 |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | ASIAN RIVERS $2000: Indonesia's longest river, the Kapuas, flows around 700 miles on this, the world's third-largest island Borneo |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | AVIATION $400: In 1938 this future billionaire flew around the world in the then-record time of 3 days & 19 hours (Howard) Hughes |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In Greece, when these fall out, children don't put them under the pillow; they throw them on the roof for good luck teeth |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: In 1948 it was established as the national airline of Israel El Al |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The city of Kirkuk is a center of this country's oil industry Iraq |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): This 14-foot-long holy relic has been housed in Italy's Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista since 1578 the Shroud of Turin |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Oddly, the national dog of this Mediterranean island nation is the pharaoh hound & not the toy breed that's named for it Malta |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $1600: A staff with a snake coiled around it appears on the emblem of this U.N. agency that's HQ'd in Geneva the World Health Organization |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $1000: The latest World Almanac keeps us up on changes like this new name with no "Republic" for the land where Prague is located Czechia |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface Baikal |
| #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 |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This desert covers about 500,000 square miles in China & southern Mongolia the Gobi |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: People from Glasgow aren't called Glasgowians but this Glaswegians |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: There are 2 official languages spoken on Cyprus--Greek & this Turkish |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Kings reign over these 2 countries in Asia that both begin with "B" & end with "N" Bahrain and Bhutan |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In the winter of 2016, Algerian kids learned sledding as this desert got its first snow since 1979 the Sahara |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Vancouver metro area is home to more than half this province's 4.5 million people British Columbia |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Lord Byron rhymed it with "alone" when he wrote of the "blue rushing of" this French-Swiss river Rhone |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This national capital is on the Chao Phraya River Bangkok |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: 1,000 years ago this city now outside Russia got the title "Mother of Rus Cities" Kiev |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | FAMOUS SHIPS $2000: In 1577 it left England with 4 sister ships; the sister ships didn't make it around the world but it did the Golden Hind |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: This South Korean capital is said to be the world's most wired city, with around 95% of households having broadband Seoul |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $800: In 1889 journalist Nellie Bly tried to beat the record of Phileas Fogg in this novel & did, by more than a week Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 1579 during his trip around the world, he stopped near present-day San Francisco & named the area Nova Albion Drake |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $2000: Many economists say this standard of fixed global exchange rates helped spread the Depression around the world the gold standard |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $600: From August 1966 to May '67, Sir Francis Chichester did this alone, centuries after Sir Francis Drake did it with a crew sail around the world |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | WORLD HISTORY $800: The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this "hot" state Tabasco |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Here's a welcoming shot of this country from the viewpoint of a famous statue Brazil |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This river rises in Lake Itasca in Minnesota the Mississippi |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This mountain system includes Mount Toubkal in Morocco the Atlas Mountains |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: This country is mostly surrounded by India, though to the southeast, it shares a border with Myanmar Bangladesh |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This American territory is a mere 5,800 miles west of San Francisco Guam |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: This character & his servant leave London in effort to go around the world in 80 days (Phileas) Fogg |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | I GET AROUND $800: In the 2010 movie called this "Legacy", light cycles were used as transport inside a virtual world Tron |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: After defeating the Shang dynasty around 1000 B.C., the Zhou dynasty ruled this empire for nearly 800 years ancient China |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2000: Menes is credited with unifying the upper & lower sections of this kingdom around the 3rd millennium B.C. Egypt |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | DONE THAT $1600: Set out on an around the world trip in November of 1889 Nellie Bly |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | START UP YOUR CARLOS $2000: In poems such as "Spring and All", this 3-named writer emphasized the overlooked beauty of the world around us William Carlos Williams |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Though it's a country, with embassies & everything, its population is only about 800 Vatican City |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Chile & Colombia both use currencies called this the peso |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The 4 most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish & this other Asian one Hindi |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Japan's 2 largest islands, they both start with the same letter Honshu & Hokkaido |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This "passage" named for an explorer separates South America from Antarctica the Drake Passage |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $200: Following a request from Pope Benedict XVI, Cuba reinstated this holiday, observed 2 days before Easter Good Friday |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $400: In this country, April 24 is a day for remembering the more than 1 million victims of the 1915 genocide Armenia |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $600: A public holiday in some countries, Vesak commemorates his birth, enlightenment & death Buddha |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $800: On this holiday observed on November 1 & 2, families in Mexico gather together to remember departed loved ones the Day of the Dead |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: On July 30 this country celebrates Mohammed VI's ascension to the throne Morocco |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: We have no beef with this capital of Hyogo Prefecture being called one of Japan's most attractive cities Kobe |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: ETA, a separatist group of this people in Spain, has renounced armed struggle in recent years the Basque |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Smaller than Crete, this Greek island of 90,000 people had 450,000 refugees pass through in 2015 Lesbos |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Just west of Afghanistan's Kandahar province is this one, also the name of the country's longest river Helmand |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: As its name implies, the website blitzortung.org lets users track this atmospheric phenomenon around the world lightning |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Hands & feet in the vehicle at all times driving around this Asian island that gave its name to the world's largest lizards Komodo |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This line goes around the world & gave its name to an Andean country the equator |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Dry & crisp rose wines known as Tavel come from this southeastern French river's valley region the Rhône |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Airports serving this capital city include Tegel & Schonefeld Berlin |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The trading city of Djenne is found in this country on a caravan route crossing the Sahara Mali |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALL THE LYRICS IN THE SONG $800: This "Punk" electronic group had nothing to say in a 1997 song except "Around the world" Daft Punk |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | WORLD LANDMARKS $800: Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark the Sphinx |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $400: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) Around 1455 the best new thing in the world was movable type, used in a 42-line Bible produced by this German printer Gutenberg |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | GEOLOGY $600: This Mideast country has around 16% of all the world's oil reserves, with an estimated 268 billion barrels Saudi Arabia |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | WHAT A CHARACTER $1200: We wager you might know that Phileas Fogg is the man in motion in this Jules Verne work Around the World in 80 Days |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | ANTHROPOLO-"G" $2,000 (Daily Double): "Cultural" this says that the human experience around the world is becoming more homogenous globalization |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $200: This state capital is 40 miles west of Las Vegas (New Mexico) Santa Fe |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $400: Columbus' ship would've been at home on this Arizona river, a tributary of the Bill Williams River Santa Maria |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $600: An Orange County city, an El Salvador volcano or a hot, dusty wind that bears down on Los Angeles Santa Ana |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $800: A California county, an ex-NBC soap opera, or a Philippine municipality near the Jaro River Santa Barbara |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $1000: It's the Italian name for the patron saint of sight, or for the area seen here on the Bay of Naples Santa Lucia |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $2000: The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont the Dardanelles |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: TTD is an abbreviation for the monetary unit of this island country Trinidad and Tobago |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Strait of Gibraltar separates this country from Spain by about 8 miles Morocco |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: In 1998 Hurricane Mitch ravaged this capital of Honduras Tegucigalpa |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This highest European mountain is found in Russia & is an anagram of "rubles" Elbrus |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Afghanistan's 2 official languages are Dari & this one Pashto |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this "Jeopardy!" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster Watson |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | GRECIAN EARN $2000: She, of the black spectacles, is worth around $300 million & is said to be the world's top-selling female singer Nana Mouskouri |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Seen here, this port city of 5 million is found on both banks of the Neva River Saint Petersburg |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Mexican Hat is in Utah & Medicine Hat is in this Canadian province Alberta |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): They drive on the left in this South Atlantic group of about 200 islands & 2,900 people the Falklands |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Though not one of the 10 biggest countries, it stretches nearly 2,700 miles from north to south Chile |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here's the route she took trying to fly around the world; in July 1937, she began the longest leg of the journey, 2,600 miles over open water to Howland Island; she never made it Amelia Earhart |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | JULES VERNE $3,000 (Daily Double): During her 72-day trip around the world, 1889-90, she stopped in Amiens to visit with Verne, who had inspired her trip Nellie Bly |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: The first Czech composer to gain world renown, around 1878 he composed the "Slavonic Dance" heard here Antonín Dvořák |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | LEADER OF THE PACK $2000: Though a fight in the Philippines kept him from completing the trip, he led the first around-the-world voyage Ferdinand Magellan |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $2000: Channels called these "ways" take water around a dam when the reservoir is full spillways |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The original Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island are now housed in museums around the world; replicas here on the island show this type of pictographic script that was used, though the meanings have been lost to time hieroglyphics |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Latvia & Lithuania border this sea the Baltic |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country's Dannebrog is one of the world's oldest national flags Denmark |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This northern city is the most populous capital in Africa Cairo |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the only Grand Duchy in the world Luxembourg |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: They're the 2 largest ethnic groups on Cyprus Greek & Turkish |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $200: On Russian "Jeopardy!" the clues, like the one here about guacamole, are written in this alphabet Cyrillic |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country enjoys a good game of "Kuldvillak", & in the clue here, mentions its capital of Tallinn Estonia |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $600: You might be able to play along with TIM ELLER TOM on Swedish "Jeopardy!"--check out a clue about this director Tim Burton |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $800: Players on Danish "Jeopardy!" don't play for the big bucks; as seen here, they play for the big these krone |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | JEOPARDY! AROUND THE WORLD $1000: "Buyuk Risk" is in this language, written in a form of the Latin alphabet that replaced Arabic script in 1928 Turkish |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $200: (Alex delivers the clue from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.) The C-130 has long been the workhorse of the United States military, carrying soldiers & supplies to hostile areas all around the world & truly earning its name, that of this mythological hero & multitasker Hercules |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | HOW INNOVATIVE! $800: Scientists around the world are working on this type of animal-friendly meat, from the Latin for "glass" in vitro meat |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $200: The crazy Canadians have Kraft Dinner, but we use our noodle & call it this Kraft combo mac & cheese |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Dutch have a flavor of these chips called Cool American, which is Cool Ranch to us Doritos |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $600: The Germans know this household brand as Meister Proper Mr. Clean |
| #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 |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | BRAND NAMES AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Craving this chain's fried chicken in Iraq? Look for "Texas Chicken" --it sounds less Christian Church's |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | FRENCH LIT $800: "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" is the French title of this 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | WORDS FROM THE TECH WORLD $1200: There's a preposition in this word for a solution that circumvents a problem without fixing it a workaround |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | WORLD HIGH & LOW POINTS $800: Low:
this crime began in Peru in 1931; the demand was for the pilot to fly around dropping leaflets a skyjacking |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | DOUBLE TALK $400: We hope kids never stop "walking the dog" & going "around the world" with this toy a yo-yo |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | DINOSAURS $400: Iridium-rich sediment around the world led to the hypothesis that one of these caused dinosaur extinction meteor |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | NUMBERS FOR BOOKIES $400: "Around the World in ____ Days" 80 |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $800: Cawker City, Kansas claims the world's biggest ball of this 5-letter item, with around 8 million feet twine |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | DEAR DIARY $1200: He made the BBC documentary "Around the World in 80 Days" & published his diaries "The Python Years" Michael Palin |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | UP $1000: Before his untimely death with Will Rogers, this aviator made the first solo airplane flight around the world Wiley Post |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) From London's Reform Club to the first stop in Egypt, across India, then on to Yokohama, to the
penultimate stop in New York, here's the route taken in this Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $200: Take a guess & name this country where these tulips were photographed the Netherlands |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $400: China is the home of this beautiful red flower, seen resting on its pad a (water) lily |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $600: In "East of Eden" he wrote that the Salinas Valley was carpeted with poppies, like the ones seen here in Big Sur (John) Steinbeck |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $800: The snowbell starts its growth before the snow melts on this range that includes Julian & Bernese sections the Alps |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | FLOWERS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: These hibiscuses are used to taking on water in this state, where you'll find the U.S.A.'s wettest weather station Hawaii |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line equator |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $200: A down under tradition since 1937 is these "by candlelight", with Aussies singing outdoors in the summer weather carols |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $400: British kids do this with Christmas letters so their wishes will go up the chimney to Father Christmas burn them |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Each December 5th near Lucerne, hundreds of Swiss men don huge, candlelit, cardboard mitres, reminding us that St. Nicholas was one of these Catholic officials a bishop |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $1000: In Sweden this patron saint of sight is honored on December 13 as part of the Christmas celebration St. Lucy |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): In Latin America the Christmastime walks & visits called novenas start on this pre-Christmas date December 16th |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | TV BARS & SALOONS $400: Sam Malone sold this bar & left for an around-the-world sailing trip, but the boat sank & he was soon back at the bar Cheers |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $400: This museum's original holdings consisted of art collected by the Hapsburg & Bourbon monarchs of Spain the Prado |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In 1953 the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario, Canada city held its first performance Stratford |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $1600: This form of Japanese drama that incorporates music, dance & mime developed in the 1600s kabuki |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Drawing from the name of our motion picture capital, it's the name for India's movie industry Bollywood |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | CULTURE AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Originated by 2 high schoolers in 1971 , the Roskilde culture & music festival in this country is one of Europe's largest Denmark |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | INTO THIN AIR $400: Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail around the world this way, later disappeared en route to the West Indies in 1909 alone (or solo) |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Magellan left Spain on September 20, 1519; just 1 week later, he received a letter telling him of a mutinous plot while getting provisions in these islands the Canary Islands |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After reaching South American waters, Magellan spent the winter of 1520 in Puerto San Julian, today in this southern region Patagonia |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The waterway that took the fleet into the Pacific is now named for Magellan, but because he was there on November 1, 1520, Magellan called it Todos los Santos, meaning this strait the Strait of All Saints |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though Magellan gets the credit for the first around-the-world journey, he was killed midway through the voyage on the island of Mactan in what is now this republic the Philippines |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1522, after three years & 42,000 perilous miles, only one of the original ships and 18 of the more than 250 original crew made it back to this Spanish region Andalusia |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | WORD PUZZLES $800: Take one to see the globe trip around the world |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: One of the 2 South American members of OPEC Venezuela (or Ecuador) |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Natural barriers like rivers, mountain ridges, even ditches and moats make up one quarter of the length of this landmark The Great Wall of China |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Corinth is at the northern edge of this peninsula making up southern Greece the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Home to 140 million people, the island of Java is part of this country Indonesia |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This city on the Indian Ocean is "D" chief seaport of South Africa Durban |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | FLANDERS $600: Students from around the world come to Mechelen to learn to play these at carillon school (church) bells |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $200: Strolling on Salisbury Plain, near this monument Stonehenge |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $400: Climbing this sacred mountain of Japan in Shizuoka Prefecture Mount Fuji |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $600: Enjoying a musical performance at this venue the Sydney Opera House |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Visiting the "Anne of Green Gables" house in this smallest Canadian province Prince Edward Island |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Exploring this "long-lost" resort in the Bahamas that includes a casino, a water park & a 14-acre dolphin habitat Atlantis |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The ruins of ancient Carthage are found in what is today this North African nation Tunisia |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: One of the 2 "c"ounties in the Irish province of Munster Cork (or Clare) |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The name of this Honduran capital is often shortened to "Tegus" Tegucigalpa |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: One of the 2 gulfs separated by the Sinai Peninsula the Gulf of Aqaba (or the Gulf of Suez) |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: In Australia, Northern Territory is directly east of this 2-word state Western Australia |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | 15 LETTERS OR MORE $800: Term for someone who sails or flies completely around the world circumnavigator |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | THE END OF THE STORY $1600: "He brought back ...a charming woman...would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | PARDON THE ERUPTION $1200: When this volcano in the Sunda Strait erupted Aug. 27, 1883, the shock wave traveled around the world 7 times Krakatoa |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $400: Leonel Suarez of Cuba is the world's third-greatest all-around athlete: he got bronze in this event in 2012 decathlon |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | SNEAKER-ING AROUND $1000: This "quick as a cat" company boasts the Bolt Faas 400 shoe, "inspired by the world's fastest man" Puma |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | TO YOUR HEALTH $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1978 Janet Parker, a worker at Birmingham Medical School, became the last person to die of this disease smallpox |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | NATURE BOY $400: This naturalist described his 1831-36 voyage around the world in the book "Journal of Researches" Darwin |
| #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 |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Panama Canal hadn't been built in 1895, so Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, took the long way, passing through this strait on his three-year voyage the Strait of Magellan |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Whether Lomond or Ness, it's a word for "lake" in Scotland loch |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Stewart Island, this Down Under country's third-largest island, is 1/66th & 1/87th the size of the 2 biggest New Zealand |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This northern Spanish port city boasts a Guggenheim museum designed by Frank Gehry Bilbao |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Following Russia & China, which each border 14 other countries, this New World country is third with 10 Brazil |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA $800: (Alex delivers the clue from a train station at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Before trains, when you went from town to town, you had to reset your watch; this made a mess of railroad schedules, until a railroad executive came up with the great idea of the 24 of these that are still in use today around the world time zones |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This desert covers much of the African country of Mali the Sahara |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400 (Daily Double): From about 60 miles away, Mount Fuji towers over this capital city Tokyo |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: It's the only country Portugal borders Spain |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Cities in this country include Chennai & Mumbai, formerly Madras & Bombay India |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The 224-mile-long Shannon River flows through this country Ireland |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $600: The Bellingshausen Sea, an area around this continent, is named for the second man to circumnavigate it Antarctica |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | .gov $600: In 2011 the site for this volunteer org. touted its "50 years of promoting... friendship around the world" the Peace Corps |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | CARS IN AMERICA $200: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) The Chevy Coach dates from around the time this became the world's largest car company; with cars like my favorite, the Corvette... it held that position until 2008, then filed for bankruptcy but now it's back on top GM (General Motors) |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $400: Johann Wyss edited & completed his father's book about this "Swiss Family" the Robinson family |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $800: A woman learns of family secrets back in China in this author's 2001 novel "The Bonesetter's Daughter" Amy Tan |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $1200: The "Mabinogion" is a collection of Celtic tales & lore from this United Kingdom country Wales |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $1600: One of the first epics in Spanish literature was "The Poem of" this hero, from around 1140 El Cid |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $2000: This Frenchman dedicated his book of poems "Les Fleurs du mal" to his friend & fellow poet Theophile Gautier Charles Baudelaire |
| #6326, aired 2012-03-05 | SECONDS $2000: From 1577 to 1580 he commanded the second voyage ever to go around the world Francis Drake |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | COCA-COLA PRODUCTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: Inca Kola, developed in this country in 1935, is considered a national beverage there Peru |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | COCA-COLA PRODUCTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: A mineral sports drink popular in Europe is named for this water bearer of the zodiac Aquarius |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | COCA-COLA PRODUCTS AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In Japan, Hajime is the green type of this beverage tea |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | COCA-COLA PRODUCTS AROUND THE WORLD $1600: In Vietnam lay down your sword & enjoy this energy drink named for a Japanese warrior Samurai |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | COCA-COLA PRODUCTS AROUND THE WORLD $2000: In addition to the classic orange & grape, this soda brand also comes in flavors like aloe vera muscat, lychee & guarana Fanta |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | USS IWO JIMA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the USS Iwo Jima in New York.) The LCAC amphibious landing craft rides on a cushion of air, delivering troops & equipment to beaches around the world; in 1991, a record 11 LCACs were used in the Persian Gulf during Operation this Operation Desert Storm |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | OOO, SORRY $400: Did you say "Phineas Fogg"? No, the hero of "Around the World in Eighty Days" is named this Phileas Fogg |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | PLANET OF THE CORGIS $600: Here's our friend the corgi taking this future world leader for a walk in Hyde Park around 1940 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew is in a practice room at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York. A dancer is practicing in the background.) The Dance Theatre of Harlem has brought ballet around the world, including giving China's first performance of this 1910 Stravinsky work with an elusive title character The Firebird |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | ALL ABOUT STEVE $1000: In 2005 he became the first person to fly solo around the world in an airplane without stopping to refuel Steve Fossett |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | THE 1880s $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1889 she set out from New York, making it around the world in less than 73 days Nellie Bly |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks on the beach at Sydney, Australia.) 80,000 people who participate in the annual City to Surf Fun Run come to this alliterative Sydney beach, a destination for surfers from around the world Bondi Beach |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | SHIP HAPPENINGS $1600: During his 1570s trip around the world, Sir Francis Drake changed his ship's name from the Pelican to this the Golden Hind |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a pineapple factory on Maui.) The Spanish & the Portuguese spread the pineapple from South America around the world, & it was introduced to Hawaii in 1813 by a Spanish advisor to this ruler Kamehameha |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | WORLD RELIGIONS $800: Early stories in this Japanese religion appeared in the Nihongi & Kojiki, both written around 1,300 years ago Shinto |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE ROLES $1600: In this movie based on a classic novel, Jackie Chan plays Passepartout, Phileas Fogg's travel companion Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THIS... WAS... JEOPARDY! $400: On June 1, 1937, she took off from Miami to fly around the world, but that didn't work out so well Earhart |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $2,600 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord Oslo |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country is part of the U.K., but not part of Great Britain Northern Ireland |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Surprisingly, this mountainous Western European country didn't fully grant women the right to vote until 1971 Switzerland |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Of the 5 largest countries in area, the one in South America Brazil |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Until 2001 this tiny country used the French franc & the Spanish peseta, but today uses the euro Andorra |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This West Coast African country with a Portuguese name was, like Liberia, founded as a nation for freed slaves Sierra Leone |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The "Bird's Nest" in this city won architecture's Lubetkin Prize Beijing |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: What happens in this city, seen here, stays in this city seen here Las Vegas |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The gargoyle stands guard on this cathedral on Paris' Île de la Cité Notre Dame |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The International Olympic Committee gave the 11 million people of this Brazilian city yet another reason to celebrate in 2009 Rio de Janeiro |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: It's the Great Lake seen here on a lovely night Lake Michigan |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | & ALL WHO SAIL WITH YOU $400: On Sept. 20, 1519 this Portuguese navigator headed west on a trip around the world Magellan |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | LITERARY LETTER DROP $400: Jules Verne title trip that's undergone a letter drop & been shortened by 90% Around the World in Eight Days |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | 1969 $800: On July 20, 1969 some 600 million people around the world were glued to their TV sets watching this the man landing on the Moon |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THE WORLD'S OCEANS $800: This smallest ocean occupies the region around the North Pole the Arctic Ocean |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | PRODUCE $2000: This "Around the World in Eighty Days" producer was husband No. 3 for Joan Blondell & for Liz Taylor Mike Todd |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $800: After World War I, France was given a League of Nations mandate over this country Lebanon |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | "J" MART $600: Pass the jelly to Boy Scouts around the world at one of these camping rallies a jamboree |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $400: Verne:
"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | AROUND THE U.N. $1,500 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Assembly floor.) Many U.N. agencies, like the World Health Organization, are headquartered in this country that didn't get its General Assembly seat until 2002 Switzerland |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) In 1967, the CBC international broadcast center was used by crews from all around the world who were here to report on this World's Fair Expo '67 |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The youngest person to climb it was 15-year-old Temba Tseri on May 22, 2001 Mount Everest |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: It begins in Lake Itasca in Minnesota & ends in the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi River |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The first person known to be born on this continent was Emilio Palma in 1978 Antarctica |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The country with the most volcanoes is this nation that felt a huge eruption in 1883 Indonesia |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,400 (Daily Double): This Southern Hemisphere nation was named after a southwestern province of the Netherlands New Zealand |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $400: Jules Verne:
"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $400: Colon had treated me well, & I bid this Central American country & its divine waterway a fond adios Panama |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $800: My time in Wajir was at an end, yet I could not leave this country until enjoying the wonders of Mombasa Kenya |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $1200: I slipped between the 2 official languages of this country, Malagasy & French, as a lemur dashed by, enchanting me Madagascar |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $1600: Now, it was away to the W. border this country shares with Bulgaria & Greece; the Black Sea had taught us well Turkey |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $2000: My travels took me to this Indonesian island's provincial capital of Denpasar where the winds blow hot, east of Java Bali |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | A PHRASE OF TURN $600: From the Latin for "roll", it means to move in a curving orbit; your mom thinks "the world" does it "around you" revolve |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $1600: Hobbled by a bad hamstring & bum knee, he homered to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series & limped around the bases Kirk Gibson |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AVIATION $2000: In 1986 he & Jeana Yeager piloted the Voyager on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world (Dick) Rutan |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | THE WORLD OF SPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Originating in Persia, this sport gained popularity with British officers in India who liked horsing around polo |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | ECONOMICS $800: Theodore Levitt coined this term for the integration of markets around the world globalization |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $1000: Tale that recounts a "Fogg"y journey:
A T W I 80 D Around the World in 80 Days |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE $400: In 1933 aviator Wiley Post became the first person to do this twice fly around the world |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | KIDS IN LIT $800: A book by a great-great-uncle shows Jared, Simon & Mallory the hidden world around them in this series The Spiderwick Chronicles |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | ZEPPELIN $800: This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929 the Graf Zeppelin |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | WORLD HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew narrates from Lima, Peru.) The Plaza Mayor, Lima's main square since colonial days, was used for executions during the time of this tribunal that began in Peru around 1568 the Inquisition |
| #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 |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman (Amelia) Earhart |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $800: On Feb. 19 2008 this longtime leader announced he'd give up his presidency (Fidel) Castro |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather "season" hurricane season |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes chutneys |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Many of this country's postage stamps reproduce paintings in Prince Hans-Adam's art collection Liechtenstein |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD $200: His "called shot" home run off Charlie Root in the 1932 World Series is baseball legend Babe Ruth |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | MODES OF TRANSPORT $400: The Triton was the first one of these to travel around the world underwater a (nuclear) submarine |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD $400: Maybe...Yes, sir! Nailing an 11-foot putt on 17 helped seal the 1986 Masters for this Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD $600: His prestidigitation (or in this case a "Jr. Skyhook") won Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals for the Lakers Magic Johnson |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD $800: In 1994 this 45-year-old won the title with a 1-2 punch that sent Michael Moorer to Horizontal Land George Foreman |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD $1000: In 1999 she wasn't shirtless in Seattle but rather in Pasadena after her kick won the Women's World Cup for the U.S. Brandi Chastain |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: After it gained its independence, Belarus adopted its own version of this basic currency the ruble |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Hey mon! Blue Mountain Peak is the highest point in this island country Jamaica |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Paris Opera House architect Charles Garnier also designed the world-famous casino in this town Monte Carlo |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Thredbo & Perisher Blue are popular ski resorts in these aptly named Australian mountains the Snowy Mountains |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a map on the monitor.) The waterway that separates South America from Antarctica is known as this passage, for an explorer who may have navigated it in 1578 the Drake Passage |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | 1980s MUSIC $800: This 1983 Police album gave the world "Every Breath You Take" & "Wrapped Around Your Finger" Synchronicity |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island Crete |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This Danish city's name means "merchant's harbor" Copenhagen |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.) Violence in this region of Western Sudan has spilled over into Chad & has led to worldwide humanitarian appeals Darfur |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Capri sits at the entrance to the bay of this Italian city Naples |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Wrecked military vehicles remain by the road from Tel Aviv to this city as a memorial of Israel's 1948 War of Independence Jerusalem |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This continent's highest mountain was named for Polish hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko Australia |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | JUST PLANE FUN $2000: In Winnie Mae, his Lockheed Vega, this pilot known for his eyepatch became the first to solo around the world in 1933 Wiley Post |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around 600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City" Naples |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: An African country named for this line is actually one degree north of it the equator |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Europe's Jostedal glacier has shrunk so much, you can see farms destroyed in the 1700s ice age in this country Norway |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In 1943 the Paricutin volcano in this country grew in a cornfield to be more than 1,100 feet tall Mexico |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: This African natl. park HQed at Seronera first got elephants 30 years ago, pushed in by encroaching humans Serengeti |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: 70 million years ago, this immense Australian sandstone monolith was actually an island in a large lake Ayers Rock |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $400: The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting Paris |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $800: He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing Arthur Miller |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $1200: A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical Tarzan |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2000: If you get to put "RSC" on your resume, you were part of this British troupe the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2,500 (Daily Double): There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko (Constantin) Stanislavski |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1994 Jordan signed a peace treaty with this country, ending the official state of war between them Israel |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In 1903 Panama declared its independence from this country Colombia |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: According to legend, this country's city of Cuzco was built by Manco Capac, the first ruler of the Incas Peru |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The principalities of Moldavia & Walachia were joined together to form this country in the 19th century Romania |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The capital of this Pacific island kingdom is Nuku'alofa Tonga |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The name Lebanon comes from a word for "white", referring to this atop mountains snow |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In the board game Risk, they're 2 of the 4 South American countries represented (2 of) Brazil, Argentina, Peru, & Venezuela |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Built on 14 islands, this capital of Sweden is one of the world's most picturesque cities Stockholm |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew takes a stroll outside in Kyoto, Japan.) The tourist areas of Japan are especially crowded in the spring season of hanami, the time for viewing these blossoms the cherry blossoms |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This large sea serves as the Sahara's northern boundary the Mediterranean |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall.)
I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall in the cockpit of a Lockheed Electra, like the one that vanished with this woman who was trying to fly around the world in 1937 Amelia Earhart |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $400: Galileo was the first person to see the rings around this planet Saturn |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & northwestern India the Indus |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $200: It took 6 tries, but in 2002 Steve Fossett became the first man to fly solo around the world in one of these hot air balloon |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | GM $1000: Around 1910 "Standard of the World" was the slogan of this luxurious GM make Cadillac |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: On Oct. 2, 1872 he & his servant leave London in an attempt to go around the world in 80 days Phileas Fogg |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: At Giza you'll come face-to-face with the nearly 14-foot-wide face of this famous monument the Sphinx |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: 5 days into the fifth month, Mexicans celebrate the holiday they call this Cinco de Mayo |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Seen here, the national flag of this European kingdom is believed to be the oldest in the world Denmark |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: This Canadian bay covers more than 3 times the area of the Great Lakes combined Hudson Bay |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the highest point in Pakistan & the second-highest mountain in the world K2 |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ELLEN $600: In 2005 British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set a new record by doing this solo in 71 days, 14 hours sailing around the world |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | A KITTY CAT-EGORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew cats around at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE.) When this little pussycat grows up, it may reach 250 fierce pounds, because it's this biggest New World cat the jaguar |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | EXCELLENT ADVENTURE $600: It was originally published under the title "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: If you've got a week to spare, you can see much of this 6.6 million sq. mi. country via the Trans-Siberian Railway Russia |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The famous landmark seen here is in this city Pisa |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This second-largest city of Egypt is named for the "great" king who founded it; you can look it up in the library Alexandria |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: On newer maps of India, Calcutta is now Kolkata & this largest city is Mumbai Bombay |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: A famous banking street in London & a crooked street in San Francisco share this name Lombard Street |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $200: Around 1948 she moved into slums to help the poor; on Oct. 19, 2003 she was beatified Mother Teresa |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | EDWARD R. MURROW $1600: Murrow narrated this Oscar-winning 1956 film based on a Jules Verne work Around the World in 80 Days |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | GOVERNORS $200: This governor played Prince Hapi in Jackie Chan's 2004 film "Around the World in 80 Days" Schwarzenegger |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | MAGAZINES $2000: This "national" magazine that takes readers all over the world has been around since 1888 National Geographic |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | IN THE NEWS $800: Steve Fossett flew solo around the world in a plane that weighed 22,000 lbs., of which 18,000 was this fuel |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AROUND SWEDEN $600: The world's first open-air museum, Skansen, shows how people live in Sweden & has a camp of these people AKA Sami Laplanders |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | ANOTHER WORD IN THESAURUS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1978 India stopped exporting this type of monkey to scientific labs around the world Rhesus |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | TAKING FLIGHT $2000: In 1958 this Australian airline began offering around-the-world service Qantas |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | NATIVE AMERICA $600: Around 900 A.D. the Toltec Indians set up an empire centered in Tula, just north of this current world capital Mexico City |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Oskar Schindler is buried on Mount Zion in this city Jerusalem |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from outside a black brick edifice in Lubeck, Germany.) The elaborate use of brick in Lubeck, Germany began early in the city's history, partially in response to this disaster in 1157 fire |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: This capital's Plaza Independencia has a statue of Jose Artigas, hero of Uruguayan independencia Montevideo |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.) The Aswan High Dam gave Egyptians control over this annual event that dominated ancient agriculture the flooding of the Nile |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Somalia is on the geographic projection usually called this "of Africa" the horn |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS $400: Painted around 1876, his "Au Moulin de la Galette" was purchased in 1990 for $78 million Renoir |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | OH, MY GODS! $1000: The sub bearing the name of this trumpeter sea god & son of Poseidon was the first to travel around the world underwater Triton |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: We wonder if trolls guard the Saab design center in Trollhattan in this country Sweden |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: (Survivor's Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Palau.) Palau has a lake named for these gelatinous creatures which, believe me, do not taste good spread on toast jellyfish |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: When in Vienna, sample some of this torte that's so famous it was the subject of a 1965 lawsuit Sachertorte |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The tallest bridge in the Caribbean is the Queen Juliana Bridge in this capital of Curacao Willemstad |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,200 (Daily Double): Guys in armor must feel at home in this section of London that's home to Harrods Knightsbridge |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: In 1929 Hugo Eckener commanded this famous airship with a 2-word name on a flight around the world the Graf Zeppelin |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library Alexandria |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing Darius the Great |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $400: The subject of the stamp seen here is a major artist of this nation the Netherlands |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the ancient religious complex depicted on the stamp seen here Angkor Wat |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $1200: It's the year the commemorative stamp seen here was issued 1981 |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Mais oui, the work of this painter is featured on the stamp seen here Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | STAMPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD $2000: He's the nationalist statesman seen here Sun Yat-sen |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | ON THE GO $2000: In 1986 he & Jeana Yeager flew nonstop around the world without refueling Rutan |
| #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 |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 981 this explorer was banned from Iceland for 3 years for killing a neighbor in a feud Erik the Red |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | SPORTS TERMS $600: "Around the world" is a round of golf with this score, an allusion to a certain novel 80 |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | MONTY PYTHON $800: In 1988 this Pythoner made it around the world in 80 days for the BBC with 17 hours to spare Michael Palin |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | GREAT MOMENTS IN TRAVEL $800: In the 1840s Ida Pfeiffer made this trip in 2 1/2 years; in 1889 Nellie Bly did it in 72 days Around The World |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | HOW ABOUT HOWARD $800: This billionaire set many flying records, including an around-the-world mark of 3 days, 19 hrs., 14 mins. Howard Hughes |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | TECHNOLOGY $1600: (Alex shows off some Sony tech at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada.) The Sony display unit used here at Air Canada Centre & around the world has this suitably colossal name a JumboTron |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | "A" IN HISTORY $1000: It's the first name of Italian navigator Vespucci, who made several trips to the New World around 1500 Amerigo |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | FILING CHAPTER 11 $400: In its Chapter 11 "Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #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 |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | LITERATURE $1200: This author took us "Around the World in Eighty Days" & on a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" Jules Verne |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | "G" MEN $1200: On April 12, 1961 this Soviet air force pilot made a trip around the world in 108 minutes Yuri Gagarin |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | AVIATION FIRSTS $800: In 1933, 2 years before his death with Will Rogers, this pilot became the first to fly solo around the world Wiley Post |
| #4420, aired 2003-11-21 | AN ENGLISHMAN $1200: In this peripatetic book, Jules Verne wrote, "An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOS $200: In January of 1887 construction began on this for the 1889 Expo in Paris & it's still around the Eiffel Tower |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | HEY, VERNE! $400: Phileas Fogg's journey in this Jules Verne novel begins & ends at the Reform, a real club still going on Pall Mall Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: Famous around the world, Morocco leather traditionally comes from this farm animal a goat |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | 1960 $1200: In submarine feats, the Sargo went to the North Pole & the Triton did this, submerged, in 84 days traveled around the world |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: When she landed at Edwards AFB in 1986, she became the first woman to fly nonstop around the world without refueling (Jeana) Yeager |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | AROUND THE VATICAN $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Vatican City.) St. Peter's Square was enlarged in the 1600s so more people could hear the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing, which translates to this the city and the world |
| #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 |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $200: Mental illness or just too much coffee may cause this, the inability to sleep naturally insomnia |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $400: Full date mentioned in the first sentence of the article on the Millennium Bug January 1, 2000 |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $600: As C is in 2 volumes, but J & K are in 1, volume 13 still covers this one letter M |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $800: These "have one advantage over most other pets. They can be left alone for a day or two without food" fish |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD BOOK $1000: The World Book illustration for this occupation has a man with a cutlass, daggers, a pistol & a boarding ax pirate |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "WORLD" BOOK $4,000 (Daily Double): Published serially in Le Temps in 1872, this globetrotting work made a novel debut in 1873 "Around the World in Eighty Days" |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The forest around it is called the "Lungs of the World" because it supplies so much of the Earth's oxygen Amazon |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The province of Zeeland in southwest Holland lent its name to this country in the South Pacific New Zealand |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Although this South American country is about 2,650 miles long, its average width is less than 110 miles Chile |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $700 (Daily Double): This mountain range, whose name means "abode of snow" in Sanskrit, has more than 30 peaks towering above 25,000 feet the Himalayas |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The Gulfs of Aqaba & Suez border this Egyptian peninsula the Sinai Peninsula |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This Iraqi capital was founded on the western bank of the Tigris River in 762 A.D. by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur Baghdad |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | & AWAY WE GO $400: In 1977 a Boeing 747 flew around the world in about 54 hours; in 1995 this airliner did it in about 31 Concorde |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | LET'S GO BALLOONING! $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque.) In a classic 1939 film, this title character asecends in a balloon The Wizard of Oz |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN $200: In 2001 fans around the world mourned the death of this "Quiet Beatle" George Harrison |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $800: Captain Nemo &
Phileas Fogg Jules Verne |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | THE LARCH $800: Widely planted around the world, the Japanese larch grows wild on the mountains of this largest Japanese island Honshu |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: The story of Hans Brinker is set in & around this capital Amsterdam |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Contemporary art from around the world is on display at this city's Salvador Allende Museum of Solidarity Santiago |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | GREECE $400: Around 1930 Angelos Sikelianos tried to revive the famous festival of this town, "Navel of the World"--didn't work Delphi |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | HOME SWEET HOME $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Gettysburg) When she was home here in Gettysburg, Mamie Eisenhower's day often revolved around watching this show, her favorite soap As the World Turns |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1956:
"Circling Earth Within 12 Weeks' Time" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | CLONING AROUND $800: Born in Austria, he starred in "The 6th Day", a 2000 film in which clones attempt to take over the world Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: If Angelique sang "Dominique" on Martinique, she'd be in this sea the Caribbean |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Traditional houses of the Dayak people of Borneo are set on these stilts |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: In South America, the city of Macapa sits just north of this line; Quito, just south of it the equator |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The present-day version of this Ancient Greek town known for its regimented lifestyle was founded in 1834 Sparta |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: The Eastern Ghats is a mountain range in India that faces this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | JULES VERNE $2,900 (Daily Double): A Nov. 24, 1889 article told of this journalist's meeting with Verne, whose work inspired her trip Nellie Bly |
| #4017, aired 2002-02-05 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from New Orleans.) New Orleans is world-famous for decorative art made from this metal, as you can see here at the Fataba Apartments (cast) iron |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | YES, SIR! $800: The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served as mayor of Plymouth Sir Francis Drake |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GOLD $200: (We'll join Sarah
at Marshall Gold Discovery Park.) Even today championships are held around the world for this activity that I'm practicing panning for gold |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Some 2,400 years ago, workers began building the Great Wall in this country China |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Legend says you'll gain the gift of persuasive speaking by kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in this country Ireland |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: Closed for safety reasons in 1990, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in this country proves adults can make mistakes too Italy |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: The biggest exposed rock in the world, Ayers Rock is held sacred by this large country's Aborigines Australia |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | "B" CAREFUL $2000: (Cheryl & Jimmy of the Clue Crew playing a board game.) This board game is popular
all around the world.
Ha ha! backgammon |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: You can visit the 6th century Mayan city of Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula in this country Mexico |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | 1995 $800: Over 200 people from around the world made speeches for this organization's 50th anniversary the United Nations |
| #3967, aired 2001-11-27 | SEA CREATURES $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is at Sea World in San Diego.) At the California Tide Pool, you can pick up one of these 5-armed animals that live in every ocean around the world starfish |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: She spent "Ten Days in a Mad House" before going "Around the World in 72 Days" Nellie Bly |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | WHYS $800: Because Columbus thought he had sailed around the world & he called the people what he thought they were why we call them Indians |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: It's the island you're visiting if your plane lands at Chiang Kai-shek Airport Taiwan |
| #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 |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: In Central America the Trans-Isthmian Highway cuts across this country Panama |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Dijon, France is the largest city of this colorful region that's famous for its wines Burgundy |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Iran's official name indicates it's this kind of republic Islamic |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE $200: This title character from John Irving's 4th novel appears on "You Think The World Revolves Around You!" Garp |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: One who travels completely around the world circumnavigator |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: For shopping & entertainment, the Ginza district in this city is world-famous Tokyo |
| #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 |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Every June Puerto Rico holds a music festival honoring this famed cellist Pablo Casals |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: It's the continent where you'll find Queen Maud Land & the Queen Maud Mountains Antarctica |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Agana is the capital of this U.S. territory Guam |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | THAT'S MY "BABY" $200: Site where 1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world "hung around" Babylon |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $400: This Englishman's 1577-1580 trip around the world wasn't mentioned in Hakluyt's 1589 book on English voyages Sir Francis Drake |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | WISH I'D SEEN THAT MUSICAL! $200: Orson Welles, Cole Porter songs & a train wreck were highlights of "Around the World", based on this novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $600: (Hi, I'm Andy Summers) This Police album gave the world "Every Breath You Take" & "Wrapped Around Your Finger" "Synchronicity" |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH $200: The world's seventh-largest country in size, this Commonwealth country is second by population India |
| #3721, aired 2000-11-06 | NAME THE NOVEL $200: 1873:
"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens..." Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Prior to 1992 this country had 3 historical regions: Moravia, Bohemia & Slovakia Czechoslovakia |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1905, 110 years after it was founded, this city became capital of Alberta Edmonton |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Madrid is in the region of central Spain known as this; it even has its own language Castille |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: You'll find Ho Chi Minh City on this river (they didn't change its name) Saigon River |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,500 (Daily Double): This island is home to orangutans & the Sultan of Brunei Borneo |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Over 98% of the people in Austria speak this official language of Austria German |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: You might tiptoe through the tulips when you're in this country, seen here the Netherlands (Holland) |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The University of British Columbia is based in this city, British Columbia's largest Vancouver |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A symbol of the millennium, the big wheel seen here is officially known as this British city's "Eye" London |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Inca Kola has been called the national beverage of this South American country in which it's made Peru |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | SISTER WENDY'S PICKS $600: 1 of the 2 young men seen here with the vast world of adult life around them David or Jonathan |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Completed in 1345, the Ponte Vecchio crosses over the Arno River in this European country Italy |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: It's the largest Scottish city on the banks of the Firth of Forth Edinburgh |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Granite pillars support the roof of this man's burial "hall" near "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" Mao Tse-tung |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $600: Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency Alexander the Great |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: In 1995 the Pacific island of Kiribati shifted this "line", making it the first nation to see the morning sun each day International Date Line |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: It's the river that runs through Ludwigshafen & Mannheim Rhine |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | LET'S TAKE A LITTLE TRIP $100: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours Concorde |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | LET'S TAKE A LITTLE TRIP $400: In 1889 she left New York & went around the world in less than 80 days Nellie Bly |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | AROUND ASIA $800: Eel is a culinary specialty of this third-largest Japanese city, site of the 1970 World's Fair Osaka |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | THE UNDIE WORLD $200: It's worn around the waist & clipped to the tops of stockings to keep them in place a garter belt |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THAT 1870s SHOW $400: Bo pays his sister to do a book report on this 1872 Jules Verne novel & gets almost 3 months in detention Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | WORLD RELIGION $800: He was born Kong Qiu around 551 B.C. in the Chinese state of Lu Confucius |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS $400: In 1993 a museum was built around one of the world's largest balls of string in this Missouri resort city Branson |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | MADE UP $1000: We get misty thinking of this Jules Verne Englishman who goes "Around The World In 80 Days" Phileas Fogg |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: When remeasured in 1999, this highest mountain was found to have grown by 7 feet Mount Everest |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Most of this small British dependency on ths Spanish coast is dominated by a big "rock" Gibraltar |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: For safety reasons this landmark seen here was closed to the public in 1990: the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Argentina, Bolivia & Brazil could say to this small country, "Halt, we've got you surrounded!" Paraguay |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $600 (Daily Double): Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in this country, covers some 3,200 square miles Iceland |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: In 1953 the CIA helped expel Mohammad Mossadegh & restore this Iranian leader Shah of Iran |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1976 soccer's Diego Maradona joined this country's national team when he was only 16 years old Argentina |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: In June Bulgaria holds an annual harvest festival of these blossoms, the month's traditional flower Rose |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes Chutneys |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The "Mabinogion" is a collection of Celtic lore from this United Kingdom division Wales |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | TV PILOTS $400: In 1975 David McCallum could be seen (sometimes) in a pilot based on this H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man |
| #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 |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | BOY MEETS WORLD $200: Around 1347 B.C. at the age of 9, his rule as pharaoh began King Tut |
| #3466, aired 1999-10-04 | AFTER PYTHON $400: He's traveled a bit -- "Pole To Pole", "Around The World In 80 Days"... Michael Palin |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: Around 1650 B.C. these people made their capital at Hattusas in central Anatolia in what is now Turkey the Hittites |
| #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 |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This line divides the Northern & Southern Hemispheres Equator |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: I'll be doggone, the Chihuahua Desert is in this neighbor of the U.S. Mexico |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The Amundsen-Scott research base is located at this famous point on Antarctica South Pole |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the longest river of the world's largest tropical forest Amazon |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | AROUND THE USA $300: When it's October, it's time for the World Dairy Expo in this state capital Madison, Wisconsin |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Boomtown 1910 is a recreated frontier street at a museum in Saskatoon in this Canadian province Saskatchewan |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Efik people of this continent are closely related to the Ibibio Africa |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Costa Rica's name translates to this in English "Rich Coast" |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This Scandinavian country is quite flat: its highest point, Yding Skovhoj, is just 568 feet high Denmark |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: If you're a native Maldivian, you hail from an island country in this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: The first Englishman to sail around the world, he later served in the British Parliament Sir Francis Drake |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N Vienna |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim Turkey |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: You'll find Reindeer Lake covering over 2,400 square miles in this country Canada |
| #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 |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Ukraine, Germany & the Baltic Sea all border this country Poland |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Pope John Paul II was born in the city of Wadowice in this country Poland |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Beginning in the mountains of Queensland, the Darling River flows 1,700 miles as this continent's longest river Australia |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Cities in this country include Baguio, Quezon City & Manila the Philippines |
| #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 |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: 3 of the 7 countries that make up Central America (3 of 7) Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua & Panama |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Her first attempt to fly around the world ended in March 1937 when her plane crashed in Hawaii Amelia Earhart |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | RUSSIAN "T" ROOM $600: In 1919 he & Lenin founded the Third International to bring together comrades from around the world Leon Trotsky |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Any Scottish one over 3,000' is called a Munro, for the man who made a list of them in 1891 mountain |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $200: The literary prize named for this creator of "Don Quixote" is awarded to authors who write in Spanish Cervantes |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $400: Cywydd, a verse form featuring rhyming couplets, comes from this British Isles country Wales |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $600: It was the native country of Benito Lynch, a master of the gaucho novel Argentina |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $800: This "Exodus" novelist's last name is derived from Yerushalmi, which means man of Jerusalem Leon Uris |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AROUND THE LITERARY WORLD $1000: This Russian published more than 300 short stories before he wrote his play "The Seagull" Anton Chekhov |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | THE WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $600: To duplicate this late journalist's life, travel around the world, then get inducted into the hall Nellie Bly |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | THE WORLD OF LOUNGE $300: You can't go wrong if you make this man your model of style & demeanour:
"The last thing I need is a dame around me who says she's my wife. You know how I operate." Dean Martin |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | AROUND THE EQUATOR $400: This magazine's 1998 swimsuit issue was shot at locations around the world on the Equator Sports Illustrated |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: When visiting this country's North Island, don't miss the glowworm grotto in the Waitomo Cave New Zealand |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The University of Basel, this country's oldest, was established by Pope Pius II in 1459 Switzerland |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The taka is the basic monetary unit of this country whose official language is Bengali Bangladesh |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: One of the first Arab settlements on the East African coast, it's now the capital of Somalia Mogadishu |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): Columbus named the island now usually called St. Kitts for this man, his patron saint St. Christopher |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: You'll find Greece's Parliament building on Syntagma Square in this capital Athens |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The name of this South African province means "across the Vaal" -- the Vaal River, that is Transvaal |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This country's Cathedral of Leon is named for its soaring spires & stained glass windows Spain |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Canterbury Plains, this country's largest flatland area, lies on South Island New Zealand |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: This unit of currency of the Cayman Islands is divided into 100 cents; makes sense to us Cayman Islands Dollar |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | "ODD"PODGE $1000: Born Avrom Goldbogen, this producer of "Around the World in 80 Days" was once married to Liz Taylor Mike Todd |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: It wasn't until 1954, the year after it was first scaled, that a survey set it at 29,028 feet Mount Everest |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Small ships can travel from this river's mouth 2,300 miles upstream to Iquitos, Peru Amazon |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: It's 8 stories high, cylindrical in shape & about 14 feet off the perpendicular Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Anything but boring are the Northern Lights, also known by this Latin name Aurora Borealis |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: 1,250-mile-long wonder seen here: Great Barrier Reef |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | YOU GO, GIRL! $800: Her paper, the N.Y. World, sent her to beat Phileas Fogg's record of "Around the World in 80 Days" Nellie Bly |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | FLYING $400: In January 1997 Steve Fossett stayed aloft in one for over 6 days, but failed to fly it around the world hot air balloon |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: The world's population first hit this round number around 1850; it's now about 6 times that One billion |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: As its name indicates, Ecuador's lowland El Oriente lies on this side of the Andes Eastern |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This country's islands of Palawan & Mindanao lie in the Sulu Sea Philippines |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Until 1841 present-day Quebec was Lower Canada & this present-day province was Upper Canada Ontario |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country could call itself the land of 60,000 lakes including Puulavesi & Saimaa Finland |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $500 (Daily Double): Dark Mount Lovcen gave this Yugoslav republic its name, meaning "Black Mountain" Montenegro |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This African country's people are known as Ivorians Ivory Coast |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The tower of Hallgrim's church provides a sweeping view of this Icelandic capital Reykjavik |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This French town may have been named for Cantilus, who built the first villa there; the lace came later Chantilly |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Juan Santamaria International Airport serves this capital of Costa Rica San Jose |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Some cyclists take a downhill bicycling tour of this Caribbean country's Blue Mountains Jamaica |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $500: Many telescopes around this 2nd-largest Ariz. city make it the "Astronomy Capital Of The World" Tucson |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Cotopaxi, this country's highest active volcano, is only 35 miles south of Quito Ecuador |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Bistecca alla Fiorentina, a grilled steak dish, is a specialty of this Italian city Florence |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Suva is the chief port of this Pacific island country, as well as its capital Fiji |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Crossair is this country's domestic airline; you might fly it into Lugano Switzerland |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Tortola Museum of these British Caribbean islands is in Road Town, the capital British Virgin Islands |
| #3078, aired 1998-01-07 | THEY ALL PLAYED HAMLET $100: Fans from around the world sped to Winnipeg to see this "Speed" star play Hamlet there in 1995 Keanu Reeves |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Bandung, this country's 3rd-largest city, is the capital of the province of West Java Indonesia |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Some visitors to this French Canadian province enjoy rafting on the Jacques Cartier River Quebec |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: If you're a native Capetonian, you were born in this country South Africa |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: "Amar Sonar Bangla (My Golden Bengal)" is the national anthem of this country on the Bay of Bengal Bangladesh |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Kyrenia, whose Turkish name is Girne, is a seaport & resort city on the Turkish part of this island Cyprus |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BARNYARD ANIMALS $500: Around the world this animal sounds different: "K' ok' iyo" in Korean & "Goh-geh-goh-goh" in Chinese rooster |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | COLOR MY WORLD $200: In 1973's top single, Tony Orlando and Dawn sing of tying this "Around the old oak tree" Yellow ribbon |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $800: His newspaper column "On Language" is syndicated around the world William Safire |
| #2984, aired 1997-07-17 | FILM STARS $600: In 1996 fans around the world bid arrivederci to this "La Dolce Vita" star who passed away at 72 Marcello Mastroianni |
| #2971, aired 1997-06-30 | LAS VEGAS $100: The High Roller, the highest of these rides in the world, careens around the top of the Stratosphere a roller coaster |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: He "discovered" the island of Saint-Barthelemy in 1493 & named it for his brother, Bartholomeo Christopher Columbus |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: "Disney's Fantillusion!", a spectacular musical parade, debuted in this Asian city's Disneyland in 1995 Tokyo |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Bulgaria's is "Mila Rodino", which means "Dear Homeland" National anthem |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Peru is almost twice as big as this second-largest U.S. state Texas |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $700 (Daily Double): Now in ruins, the temple complex of Angkor Thom in this country was built by Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII Cambodia (Kampuchea) |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | WORLD PRESS $500: Now available around the world, this paper grew out of the N.Y. Herald's Paris edition The International Herald Tribune |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Raj Path, a tree-lined avenue in this world capital, leads to the home of India's president New Delhi |
| #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 |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Punta Arenas, the world's southernmost mainland city, lies on this strait the Strait of Magellan |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: A catfish is one of the indigenous species of fish that inhabit this highest navigable lake Lake Titicaca |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This abbey in Gwent County, Wales inspired a famous poem by Wordsworth Tintern Abbey |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Founded in 1611, the University of Santo Tomas in Manila is this country's oldest Philippines |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Before it received its present name, this "colorful" South African river was called the Groot Orange River |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This European language is official in Togo, though Ewe, a Kwa language, is more commonly spoken French |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): Known for its lovely beaches, Peter Island lies near Tortola in this island group British Virgin Islands |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Quetzaltenango is a major city in this Central American country whose national bird is the quetzal Guatemala |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In this novel, a detective named Fix follows Fogg on his journey, believing he's a bank robber Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD $200: Nathan Road on Kowloon is one of this British colony's best-known shopping streets Hong Kong |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD $400: Plaza Las Americas in this U.S. commonwealth is the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean Puerto Rico |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD $600: Miyawaki Baisen-An, a famous shop in Kyoto, has sold these fluttering objects since 1823 fans |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD $800: You'll find Gucci's original store on Via Tornabuoni in this Tuscan city Florence |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | SHOPPING AROUND THE WORLD $900 (Daily Double): This country is famous for its hand-knit woolen sweaters, which you can purchase with its Krona, abbreviated Ikr Iceland |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The strait at South America's southern tip is named for this explorer who discovered it Ferdinand Magellan |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Residents of this Italain city refer to it as Firenze Florence |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The national name of this country is Magyar Koztarsasag Hungary |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Solidarity monument in this Polish port city honors workers killed during the 1970 shipyard strikes Gdansk |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1822 Dom Pedro declared Brazil's independence from this country Portugal |
| #2857, aired 1997-01-21 | GOLF TALK $400: Hey Verne! An around the world is a round of golf played in this many strokes 80 |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | EXPLORERS $500: He made the 2nd voyage around the world Sir Francis Drake |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | GUINNESS FOOD & DRINK RECORDS $500: The world's oldest cake, made around 2200 B.C., is in a food museum in Vevey in this Alpine country Switzerland |
| #2840, aired 1996-12-27 | THE 1980s $500: In 1986 Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager flew this plane nonstop around the world without refueling Voyager |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: About 3% of this country's people live on collective settlements called kibbutzim Israel |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: 2 miles from Innsbruck, you can see one of this country's best-preserved castles, Schloss Ambras Austria |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: When in Ecuador you might "experiment" with new foods like cuy, which is this lab rodent, baked Guinea Pig |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The capital of Indonesia is on this island Java |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Each July this Swiss town plays host to a world-famous jazz festival Montreux |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Go around the world, like Sir Francis Drake circumnavigate (circumnavigation accepted) |
| #2775, aired 1996-09-27 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1,000 (Daily Double): Event seen here; more than 75 million people have seen it since it debuted in 1972: the Main Street Electrical Parade |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Some visitors to Kotzebue in this U.S. state dine on reindeer stew, a local specialty Alaska |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Noted for its aboriginal art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is in this capital of New South Wales Sydney |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Cape Verde, an island country in this ocean, is about 400 miles from Dakar, Senegal Atlantic |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Cueca is a flirtatious courtship dance from this narrow country that borders Argentina Chile |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: The Kenyatta Conference Centre is one of this capital city's architectural landmarks Nairobi |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | BASKETBALL $400: This comical team's 1st trip wasn't around the world but to a town 50 miles from Chicago January 7, 1927 the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #2753, aired 1996-07-17 | LITERATURE $400: City that was the starting & ending point of Phileas Fogg's 80-day trip around the world London |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | EXPLORERS $200: For about 10 years the English kept secret the full accounts of his 1577-1580 voyage around the world Sir Francis Drake |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 1993 this gymnast won both the national & world titles in all-around, uneven bars & floor exercise Shannon Miller |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | WORLD RELIGIONS $600: His enlightenment has been dated to around 528 B.C. after a 7-week stay under the bodhi tree Buddha |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | 1889 $1000: On November 14 this reporter set off on her 72-day trip around the world Nellie Bly |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | "WORLD" CINEMA $200: When filming this 1956 motion picture, Cantinflas got many stamps in his "Passepartout" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun Galileo |
| #2668, aired 1996-03-20 | COINS $400: In 1930 Germany issued 3 & 5 Reichsmark coins commemorating the around-the-world flight of this airship The Graf Zeppelin |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: At 3,414', Carrauntoohill in the mountains of Kerry is this country's highest peak Ireland |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Air Canada is headquartered in this French-speaking city Montreal |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: The name of this city's Limehouse District may be derived from its limekilns, or "lime oasts" London |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: The Catholic University of Valparaiso was founded in this South American country in 1928 Chile |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800 (Daily Double): Fish is the main export of Maldives, an island country in this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The name of these South American mountains may be derived from anti, a Quechuan word for "east" Andes |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Women of India often drape the end of this wrapped garment over their heads sari |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Almost all Bedouins in the Middle East speak this language Arabic |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This grain is Laos' chief agricultural product Rice |
| #2624, aired 1996-01-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Queen's University, 1 of the 2 universities in Northern Ireland, is in this capital city Belfast |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Tisza, Hungary's longest river, is a branch of this "beautiful blue" river the Danube |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: World Book calls this South American country "the world's largest 'coffeepot'" Brazil |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This capital of Finland lies on the Gulf of Finland Helsinki |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Since ancient times peridot has been mined on the island of Zabarjad off the coast of Egypt in this sea the Red Sea |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: The barong, a dance from this Indonesian island, dramatizes a battle between a creature & a witch Bali |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: In 1994 this Asian city's Disneyland greeted its 150 millionth visitor Tokyo |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This famous block of limestone is set into a castle tower near Cork the Blarney Stone |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $300 (Daily Double): Charlottetown, the capital of this Canadian province, is named for the wife of King George III P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island) |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: The French exchange gifts on this day, which they call Le Jour de l'An New Year's Day |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: There's a statue of Henrik Ibsen in front of the National Theatre in this capital city Oslo |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | FOREIGN AUTHORS $100: This author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" also wrote librettos for operettas Jules Verne |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | SPORTS $200: Kim Zmeskal & Shannon Miller are the only U.S. women to win the all-around title at these world championships Gymnastics |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | EXPLORERS $600: William Bligh sailed with this explorer on his second voyage around the world Captain James Cook |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The second Saturday in May is Windmill Day in this country Holland |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Musee National on Av. Princesse-Grace in this country boasts a fine collection of mechanical toys Monaco |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This Scandinavian country is the home of the smorgasbord Sweden |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This Southwest Pacific country's longest river, the Waikato, flows 264 miles on North Island New Zealand |
| #2560, aired 1995-10-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,500 (Daily Double): The Jubilee Palace in this capital city was once the residence of Emperor Haile Selassie Addis Ababa |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Legend says the volcano goddess known as Madame Pele is sometimes seen on this "Big Island" of the "Aloha State" Hawaii |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Many Yucatecos, natives of this peninsula, are descended from the Maya Indians the Yucatan |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Itzhak Ben-Zvi was the only person chosen president of this country 3 times–in 1952, 1957 & 1962 Israel |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: This city was known as Serdica in ancient times, long before it became Bulgaria's capital Sofia |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: You can rent princess Margaret's villa on Mustique, an island in this sea, for about $6,000 a week the Caribbean |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | NONFICTION $1000: In 1890 this reporter shared her travel experiences in "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" Nellie Bly |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | HISTORY $300: In 1580 he became the first Englishman to complete a voyage around the world (Sir Francis) Drake |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: About 75% of its people, including most of its Maoris, live on its North Island New Zealand |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: A new museum in Yokohama traces the history of ramen, this food noodles |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: In Serbo-Croatian the name of this Italian port is spelled T-R-S-T; maybe you should buy a vowel Trieste |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Residents of this Italian fashion city call its cathedral "The Factory", as building has gone on since 1386 Milan |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): The chief tributary of this "colorful" river is the Vaal River the Orange River |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: This Scottish capital's Festival Fringe is one of the world's biggest arts festivals Edinburgh |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The world's longest fence, 3,437 miles long, was erected in this country to protect sheep Australia |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: It's the second-smallest continent, but the second-largest in terms of population Europe |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In Hungary the language is Hungarian; in Armenia, it's Armenian; in Austria, it's this German |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: This country's 500 million electors make it the world's biggest democracy India |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | WORLD HISTORY $500: Around 1380 this Oxford clergyman translated the Bible from Latin into English (John) Wycliffe |
| #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 |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Some 6,800 French Canadians live on Ile d'Orleans, an island in this province Quebec |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The city of Montevideo is the commercial center of this country Uruguay |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Mongolia's Academy of Sciences is located on this capital city Ulan Bator |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,500 (Daily Double): Vilnius, the capital of this country, was destroyed by the Teutonic Knights in 1377 Lithuania |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1938 this tycoon beat Wiley Post's record for flying around the world by almost 4 days (Howard) Hughes |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $200: This country's jarabe tapatio dance is so named because a tapatio is a person from Guadalajara Mexico |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $400: 18th century dancer Sebastian Cerezo, not Maurice Ravel, added ballet steps to this Spanish dance bolero |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $600: The legong is a pantomimic dance traditionally performed by little girls on this Indonesian island Bali |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $800: Bharata natyam, which originated in temples in this country, features symbolic hand gestures called mudras India |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The thigh-slapping schuhplattler is popular in Bavaria & in this country that borders it on the south Austria |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: This Egyptian landmark at Giza has a face that's over 13 feet wide the (Great) Sphinx |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Caroline Institute, which awards the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is in this Swedish capital Stockholm |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Often collected, Majolica pottery is named for this Spanish island from which it was shipped Majorca |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: The 3 countries that make up the Baltic states are Latvia, Estonia & this Lithuania |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $600 (Daily Double): A visit to this country would most likely start & end at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport the Philippine Islands |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Though Quechuan & Jivaroan are spoken in Ecuador, this is the country's official language Spanish |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This famous desert covers the northern half of Mali the Sahara |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, lies on this beautiful island Tahiti |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: The name of Zihuatanejo, a resort town in this country, is Nahuatl for "beach of the women" Mexico |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: It's the religion of 97% of the people of Luxembourg Catholic |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | FIRST LINES $600: "Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens..." Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | EXPLORERS $200: To prevent Portugal from claiming the Spice Islands, he set out to sail around the world Magellan |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | AVIATION $400: In 1986 Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager flew around the world without landing or doing this to the plane refueling |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | ELIZABETH'S COURT $600: This navigator who sailed around the world was an admiral in the battle that defeated the Spanish Armada Drake |
| #2391, aired 1995-01-16 | LITERATURE $600: It's the feat for which Phileas Fogg won 20,000 pounds Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2379, aired 1994-12-29 | 1995 CALENDARS $400: One new calendar features photos of golf courses around the world designed by this "Army" man Arnold Palmer |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: This city lies on the Amstel River & its name means "dam of the Amstel" Amsterdam |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Some of this city's finest museums are in Chapultepec Park Mexico City |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: In 1364 King Albert added 3 little crowns to this Scandinavian country's coat of arms Sweden |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: German Crusaders founded this city in 1201; it's now the capital of Latvia Riga |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: It's the only country in Central America whose official language is English Belize |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Aso & Yake Dake are 2 of this country's active volcanoes Japan |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Spanish call this part of the United Kingdom Escocia Scotland |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Launceston, the 2nd-largest city in this Australian Island state, was named for a town in Cornwall Tasmania |
| #2372, aired 1994-12-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Catholic University of Chile is in this capital city Santiago |
| #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 |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: Around 1512 Bartolome de las Casas became the first priest ordained in the New World on this island Hispaniola |
| #2332, aired 1994-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL GROUPS $600: The IAEA promotes the safe use of this around the world atomic energy |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The city of Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro in this country Brazil |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Bearnaise sauce is named for a region in the southwestern part of this country France |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: Once popular with pirates, the Exumas lie about 35 miles southeast of Nassau in this island group the Bahamas |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Found in the forests of New Guinea, the Cassowary is this kind of animal a bird |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,200 (Daily Double): Dar es Salaam is one of the major ports on this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Rialto over the Grand Canal is one of the most famous bridges in this Italian city Venice |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: As an overseas territory of France, Tahiti also celebrates this July 14 holiday Bastille Day |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This largest museum in Russia houses over 2 million works of art the Hermitage |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In 1872 this city succeeded Spanish Town as Jamaica's capital Kingston |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Of Switzerland's 4 national languages, it's the one spoken by the most Swiss German |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: You'll find one of these mythical beasts on the flag of Bhutan a dragon |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: It's the dominant religion in Tunisia Islam |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: These Caribbean islands are sometimes called the B.V.I. for short the British Virgin Islands |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Founded in 1477, the University of Uppsala is this country's oldest university Sweden |
| #2295, aired 1994-07-22 | AROUND THE WORLD $500 (Daily Double): This European language is the official language of Mozambique Portuguese |
| #2278, aired 1994-06-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This explorer's attempt to go around the world ended with his death in the Philippines in 1521 Magellan |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | WORLD FACTS $1000: Women from around the world travel to Tralee in this country to compete in the "Rose of Tralee" contest Ireland |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Completed in 1960, the SAS Royal Hotel & Air Terminal was this Danish city's first skyscraper Copenhagen |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Algeria's flag features a star & crescent, which are symbols of this religion Islam |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This capital city is the cultural center of Chile Santiago |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This city is the home of the Canadian Football League's Stampeders Calgary |
| #2260, aired 1994-06-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Irish moss, also known as carrageen, is a type of this marine plant eaten by the Irish Seaweed |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | EXPLORERS $200: Adam Johann von Krusenstern was the first Russian to sail this far; it took him 3 years, 1803-06 around the world |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: Near the end of this novel, Passepartout discovers that the trip could have been made in just 78 days Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | LESSER KNOWN NAMES $1000: In the 18th c. Tobias Furneaux became the first explorer to accomplish this...both ways go around the world |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Tradition says that around 3100 B.C., King Menes united the upper & lower parts of this country Egypt |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Golden Pyramid is the top prize at this Egyptian capital's International Film Festival Cairo |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: You'll find native speakers of Madurese on Madura Island & in eastern Java in this country Indonesia |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: The Belgian Malinois, which is this kind of pet, is named for the Belgian city where it originated a dog |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: It's the religion of about 88% of the people of Nepal Hinduism |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Bulgaria's Botev Peak is the tallest in this mountain range the Balkans |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The Australian Opera Company is based in a famous theatre in this city Sydney |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | SPACE EXPLORATION $200: It owns all of the Apollo capsules & loans them out to other museums around the world the Smithsonian |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Royal & Ancient Golf Club is in this city named for Scotland's patron saint St. Andrew's |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: The Nelson River, an outlet of Lake Winnipeg, is the longest river in this Canadian province Manitoba |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This capital of Cyprus is 150 miles from Beirut Nicosia |
| #2198, aired 1994-03-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $700 (Daily Double): It's the religion of about 90% of the people who live in the Gambia Islam |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Sri Lanka is one of the world's leading producers of these beverage leaves tea |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Many descendants of the ancient Maya still live in the northern part of this Mexican peninsula Yucatan Peninsula |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The Avon River flows through Christchurch, a picturesque city in this South Pacific country New Zealand |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Thailand is bordered on the west by this country once known as Burma Myanmar |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): The sultan of this country lives in the $500 million "Palace of Righteous Light" Brunei |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Nepal's odd-shaped flag displays symbols for these 2 heavenly bodies the sun & moon |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The Tour de France ends in this city Pars |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This country with official names in French, German & Italian isn't a member of the U.N. Switzerland |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: In Turkey this famous pair of rivers is called the Dicle & Firat the Tigris & the Euphrates |
| #2165, aired 1994-01-21 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: In 1999 this country will return Macao to China Portugal |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: The finest opals come from this continent, mate Australia |
| #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 |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: This ancient city, called Joppa in the Bible, merged with Tel Aviv in 1950 Jaffa |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Pecorino, a cheese made from sheep's milk, comes from this country Italy |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | AROUND THE WORLD $500: Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in this volcanic country, covers about 3,200 sq. miles Iceland |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: The face on this landmark near the Great Pyramid was fashioned after the pharaoh Khafre the sphinx |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: After a 5-minute cable car trip, you can see this South American city from the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain Rio de Janeiro |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: At the Jagiellonian Univ. in Krakow, you can see many of the instruments used by this Polish astronomer Copernicus |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: On Cyprus many cities have 2 names; Lefkosa is the Turkish name for this capital Nicosia |
| #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 |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | WORLD FACTS $2,700 (Daily Double): The imposing ruins of Angkor Thom, a temple complex built around 1200, are in this country Cambodia |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Luxembourg's is "Uns Heimat", which means "Our Homeland" National Anthem |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: "Nyandete", whose name is Guarani for "spider web", is a type of this delicate open-work fabric made in Paraguay Lace |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: You'll find the original Hard Rock Cafe on Old Park Lane in this capital city London |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Greenland has two official languages: Greenlandic & this Danish |
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
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"An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
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Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
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"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
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"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
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"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Brianne Howey, an actor from Pasadena, California
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"An actor from Pasadena, California, she's appeared on Fox's The Passage,...
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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