| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $400: Appropriately, the Trundholm sun chariot was cast around 1400 B.C. in this alloy bronze |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $800: A vulture & one of these reptiles jut out of the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun a cobra |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $1200: The Nebra sky disk told ancients it was time to add a leap month when the crescent moon was by this sisterly star cluster the Pleiades |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2000: Archaeologists are still struggling to decode the Phaistos Disc found in 1908 during an excavation of a palace of this culture on Crete Minoans |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | ANCIENT ARTIFACTS $2,500 (Daily Double): Heinrich Schliemann found gold ornaments he called "The Jewels of Helen" while excavating this site in 1873 Troy |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | LIVIN' ON A PRAIRIE $400: Chadron, Nebraska's museum of this trade has artifacts of the age when beavers were the rodent to wealth the fur trading |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | TALES FROM THE UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE CENTER $800: An Egyptian burial mask & other artifacts from the time of Moses were sold through this auction house & Sotheby's rival Christie's |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $400: The state legislature made him an honorary Texan after he donated his $15 million Alamo artifacts collection to the museum there Phil Collins |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $2000: American physicist Willard F. Libby developed the method of dating artifacts via the decay of this isotope of carbon carbon-14 |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1600: Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal Waterford |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | THE COLONIAL WORLD $1000: Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Clive Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts the East India Company |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | PREMIERE EPISODES $5,000 (Daily Double): In Chicago, a 19th century kaleidoscope was one of the title artifacts on this PBS show's first episode in 1997 Antiques Roadshow |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $400: Head to the roadshow if you know that one of these artifacts is now generally defined as one that's more than 100 years old an antique |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | TONS OF FUN $3,000 (Daily Double): 3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC's oldest artifacts is the Central Park Obelisk known as her Needle Cleopatra |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | ANTIQUITY CUSTODY BATTLES $1600: This rhyming craft-supply chain got in hot water recently after purchasing artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq Hobby Lobby |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $1600: The field of digging up human artifacts is occasionally spelled with an ash in the middle--these 2 letters mushed together an A and an E |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $200: To help find the Ark of the Covenant, Indiana Jones used the headpiece to the staff of this Egyptian sun god Ra |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $400: What's called the this of Ashurbanipal in what was Nineveh has yielded thousands of clay tablets written in cuneiform the library |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $600: Located at Windsor Castle, the locket seen here contains the bullet that killed this admiral in an 1805 battle Nelson |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $800: Artifacts were recovered from a Song Dynasty ship that sank along what's called the "Maritime" this Chinese trade route the Silk Road |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | ARTIFACTS $1000: Algonquin for "beads", also a type of currency strung on belts that could be used to declare war, or to signal peace wampum |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS $600: Found by miners of this, aka bat poop, it's bat poop crazy that the artifacts of Lovelock Cave led to a legend of red-headed giants guano |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | MURPHY, BROWN $1,000 (Daily Double): Among the items she lost on the Titanic were crates of ancient artifacts that she had acquired for the Denver Museum Molly Brown |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: Artifacts & the remains of colonial leaders have been found at the site of this first permanent English settlement in America Jamestown |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In this South Dakota city where Calamity Jane lived, a 2001-2004 dig found 250,000 artifacts just in Chinatown Deadwood |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The creation of this lake, AKA Lake Nubia, forced the removal of many Egyptian artifacts Lake Nasser |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PIECE $800: Artifacts embedded in the first floor wall of Chicago's Tribune Tower include a piece of this barrier that crumbled in 1989 the Berlin Wall |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: This Costa Rican capital's Gold Museum has hundreds of pre-Columbian gold artifacts San José |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | MUSEUMS $1200: The Menshikov Palace, a part of this museum complex, is home to early 18th century Russian cultural artifacts the Hermitage |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | NEWS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Ending a 100-year dispute, in 2011 this univ. returned thousands of artifacts to Peru that were taken from Machu Picchu Yale |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | ROCKIN' MUSEUMS $400: Artifacts at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame include this singer's sequined glove Michael Jackson |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $200: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) The first artifacts museum visitors see are these architectural elements that were the signature of the World Trade Center towers; they are now known by the same name as this symbol of Poseidon tridents |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL $1200: In 2014 this "Sussudio" singer donated the vast collection of Alamo artifacts in his Swiss basement to the Texas site Phil Collins |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | WORLD CULTURES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) 1 of only 7 surviving Indian artifacts positively linked to Lewis & Clark is a bear claw necklace; Lewis wrote, "It was worn by those who esteemed themselves brave" among these people to whom Sacagawea belonged Shoshone |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | GLOBAL STUDIES $1000: The Hermitage Museum in this city houses a collection of more than 3 million works of art & artifacts St. Petersburg |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | CLEOPATRA $1600: Cleopatra's royal residence was in this Egyptian port city; many artifacts have been recovered from its waters Alexandria |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $200: His library & museum has a sculpture of him as the Sphinx FDR |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $400: Truman kept a sign with this 4-word motto on his Oval Office desk; the original sign is at his presidential library "The buck stops here" |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $600: Marshal Zhukov presented Eisenhower with the Order of Victory, a military decoration of this colorful army the Red Army |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Documents relating to these agreements, the framework for peace in the Middle East, are at the Carter Library the Camp David Accords |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PRESIDENTIAL ARTIFACTS $1000: Artifacts at his library include hand-knitted Christmas stockings for Buddy & Socks Clinton |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She's the woman seen here with some of her artifacts Margaret Mead |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GET SOME CULTURE $400: The prehistoric Yayoi culture of Japan is named for a suburb of this city where its artifacts were first found Tokyo |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): An archaeologist who specializes in the land of the pharaohs & its artifacts an Egyptologist |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | EARTH SCIENCE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an atomic diagram on the monitor.) Used to date artifacts because it has a half-life of 5,730 years, this isotope has 6 protons & 8 neutrons in its nucleus carbon-14 |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The Clovis people, who date back 13,000 years, were named for the town in this state where artifacts were first found New Mexico |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | MUSEUMS $1200: Janis Joplin's 1965 Porsche is one of the artifacts at this Cleveland museum the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In the 1940s chemist Willard Libby discovered this method of dating ancient artifacts carbon-14 dating |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | 2007 NEWS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Machu Picchu.) The Peruvian government has reached an agreement with this Ivy League university for the return of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu in the early 1900s Yale |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | ALL THINGS CHINESE $1200: You can buy artifacts from this Chinese dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 for a--well, itself Song |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | AT THE MOZART HOUSE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates glass-enclosed ornaments & artifacts in the Mozart House in Vienna, Austria.) Here are some original artifacts from this organization of which Mozart was a proud member; they were loaned to Mozart House by the Grand Lodge of Austria the Masons |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | MY CATEGORY WITH ANDRE $1600: Later French Minister of Culture, in 1923 he was arrested for removing some artifacts from a Cambodian temple Andre Malraux |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | A BEFORE E $800: We dig this scientific study of prehistoric people by analysis of their artifacts archaeology |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | THE TRUMAN LIBRARY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Truman Library in Independence, MO.) Among the library's historic artifacts is the safety plug from the bomb dropped on this city on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: This largest New Zealand city's museum has over 2,000 Maori artifacts, including an 1830s war canoe Auckland |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HISTORIC GROUPS $5,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some artifacts at the Nat'l Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.) Now National Archives properties, the Watergate tools were used by members of this committee, known as CREEP the Committee to Re-Elect the President |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | MIND YOUR SCIENCE "P"s & "Q"s $1600: The Titanic sank with its artifacts to 12,500 feet, where this is measured at about 380 atmospheres pressure |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | "EX" RATED $800: To dig for artifacts excavate |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where artifacts were discovered in 1932 New Mexico |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $100: Some of these implements survive from the old copper culture of 5,000 years ago--no bait, though (fish) hooks |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $200: The SOIC is a society dedicated to remembering these, in which fountain pens & pigtails were dipped an inkwell |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $300: Old Westerners decorated holsters; old Europeans decorated these sword sheaths a scabbard |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pretends to chop at a stone slab.) I'm wielding the versatile stone-age tool called a hand this, though it lacks a separate blade ax |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | ARTIFACTS $500: The guy pictured here is a "dux", latin for "leader", so the medieval coin seen here is called this a ducat |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW $400: The 2000 discovery of 7,500-year-old artifacts deep in this "colorful" Asian sea suggests a deluge-like flood the Black Sea |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $200: Viking artifacts have been found on this large "new" Canadian island Newfoundland |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | JADED $200: Prized Chinese artifacts include jade bottles for this tobacco product that induced sneezing Snuff |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | THE GONE WITH THE WIND MOVIE MUSEUM $200: One of the museum's most treasured movie artifacts is the front doorway of this plantation, Scarlett's home Tara |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: Anthropology, the study of mankind, includes this other -ology that digs up old artifacts Archaeology |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $500 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston.) A megaphone like this one might have been used during the sinking by this captain to shout commands Captain Edward Smith |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | ANY PORT $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston. This 16-ton piece of the hull of R.M.S. Titanic was raised from the floor of the north Atlantic in August of 1998.) The Titanic was still considered unsinkable when it sailed April 10, 1912 from this English port city Southampton |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | LIGHTEN UP! $2,000 (Daily Double): (I'm here at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston.) The Titanic's navigation beacon seen here was located on the front mast just above this lookout position the crow's nest |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | ATLANTA $400: His presidential center & library on Copenhill Avenue contains in excess of 27 million documents & other artifacts Jimmy Carter |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | INTERIOR DESIGN $1000: This Chinese method arranges furniture & artifacts within a space for the smoothest energy flow Feng shui |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | U.S. MUSEUMS $300: This Chicago museum houses more than 19 million artifacts & specimens the Field Museum of Natural History |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | TRAVEL LONDON $400: Artifacts at this museum include bas-reliefs of a lion hunt from Ashurbanipal's palace at Nineveh the British Museum |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | WORLD FACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Artifacts from the Chaco War are displayed in the Military History Museum in this Paraguayan capital Asuncion |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | LAS VEGAS $500: The Nile River Cruise inside this hotel is a barge ride past simulated Egyptian artifacts Luxor |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): The earliest Stone Age artifacts date back to this period whose name means "ancient stone" Paleolithic |
| #2482, aired 1995-05-23 | MUSEUMS $200: The Bishop Museum in this state capital has a superb collection of Polynesian artifacts Honolulu |
| #2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The Iraklion Archaeological Museum on this Greek island features Minoan artifacts Crete |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: Among the artifacts found in this chain's restaurants are Elvis' motorcycle & Ringo Starr's snare drum Hard Rock Cafe |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $300: The Ulster Museum in this city is known for its Celtic artifacts Belfast |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | MUSEUMS $200: Etruscan art & artifacts are housed at this capital city's Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia Rome |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Similar artifacts found in Siberia & off Alaska indicate that a land bridge once existed across this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | THE VIKINGS $200: Many Viking artifacts can be found on these islands famous for their ponies Shetland Islands |
| #1635, aired 1991-10-11 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The ancient Clovis culture was named for a site in this SW state where its artifacts were discovered New Mexico |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | MUSEUMS $400: The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in this U.S. city is noted for its Polynesian artifacts Honolulu |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | THE LOUVRE $200: The Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities was formed in 1826 to study artifacts from his Egyptian campaign Napoleon |
| #951, aired 1988-10-24 | ART $200: General name classifying all Mexican artifacts dated before 1492 pre-Columbian |
