| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $1000: A powerful artillery piece of World War I gave its name to this numeric cocktail made with champagne & gin a French 75 |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $1600: In 1776 artillery from Ticonderoga moved by sled through this Mass. segment of the Appalachians to fortify Boston the Berkshires |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | ARMY "ANT"s $400: AAA is this type of artillery used to defend against attack from above anti-aircraft |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A DEADLY WEAPON $400: The Mons Meg is a massive one of these artillery pieces used by the Scots for 200 years until its barrel broke a cannon |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $1000: This artillery piece, a type of small cannon, was the nickname of baseball player Howie Moss a howitzer |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | TREE TIME $1600: Couroupita guianensis is known as this tree, after the type of old-time artillery projectile its fruits resemble cannonball |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $1200: Members of this U.S. Army special operations force scaled the steep cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to take out German artillery the Rangers |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | PIECES OF GAMES $600: This Hasbro game has infantry, cavalry & artillery pieces in different colors Risk |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: The Dictator, an enormous one of these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg a mortar |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | SCULPTURE MATERIALS $800: Renaissance Florentines said, this alloy isn't just good for artillery--hey Ghiberti, sculpt some doors from it bronze |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $2000: General term for a weapon like a missile launcher artillery |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | DRINK UP: IT'S THIRST-DAY $1000: A World War I artillery piece gave its national name & caliber to this champagne cocktail the French 75 |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEAPONS OF THE WAR $200: An artillery piece called the "Swamp Angel", which shelled Charleston the Civil War |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $2000: The biggest artillery of the period may have been the great cannon that fired at this city during the 1453 siege Constantinople |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $6,000 (Daily Double): Last name of British officer Henry, who invented a very destructive artillery shell at the beginning of the 19th century Shrapnel |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | AN APPELLATION FOR THE TEACHER $400: Thomas Jackson, an artillery tactics instructor at VMI in the 1850s, later acquired this famous nickname Stonewall Jackson |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | GUN TALK $600: A piece of artillery aboard a ship that comes untied & rolls around on deck gave us this term for a dangerous person a loose cannon |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | MUCH BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX $400: The most powerful mobile artillery piece to that time, "Big Bertha" was a long-range German cannon first used in this conflict World War I |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | THE "NBA" $800: Round projectile fired by an olde-time artillery piece a cannonball |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | "HOW" GOES IT $800: This artillery piece gets its name from an old Czech word for catapult a howitzer |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" $1600: Gunpowder or grenades
(10) ammunition |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | FILL OUT YOUR BRACKET $400: In this army branch that brings out the big guns, bracketing is finding the range between over-& undershooting artillery |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | BOOM! $1000: Henry was this man's first name; his artillery shell contained balls & a powder charge to burst the shell Shrapnel |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | THE BEST DEFENSE $1000: The USA's cold war-era Skysweeper was this kind of artillery weapon anti-aircraft |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | BUILT TO DESTROY $200: 5-letter term for the projectile of an artillery weapon; the M198 can hurl one 14 miles shell |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | DOD ABCS $200: AAA can stand for this kind of artillery anti-aircraft |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | "ART", FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: Large-caliber weaponry operated by crews, such as cannons, howitzers & missile launchers artillery |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) At dawn September 17, 1862, General Hooker began his attack to reach Confederate artillery gathered by Dunker Church just four hours into this battle; 13,000 were dead or wounded Antietam |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $1000: Feminine nickname for a huge German artillery piece of World War I Big Bertha |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | CARTS, WAGONS & SLEDS $1200: It's a 2-wheeled wagon used to carry artillery ammunition; in song, they "go rolling along" caissons |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | "SH"! $800: From the name of a British Army officer, they're fragments from an exploded artillery shell shrapnel |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $1200: A heavy bombardment of artillery a barrage |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | YOU'RE FIRED $1200: A stumpy artillery weapon fired at at least a 45-degree angle to the ground is called this, like bonding material a mortar |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | MASADA $400: (Alex reports from Masada, Israel.) The Romans would come out of their encampment down below & harry the defenders of Masada by hurling stones such as this one over the walls using this ancient artillery weapon catapult |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: This word for a large piece of artillery comes from the Italian for "great tube" cannon |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | "F" I DO SAY SO $1000: This compound word is a forward artillery position set up to support advancing infantry a firebase |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: This Boston hall houses the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, chartered in 1638 Faneuil Hall |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | "HOW"s $1000: Light artillery piece for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench Howitzer |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | WAR OF WORDS $400: In baseball, it's the pitcher & catcher; in war, it's a set of guns or other artillery the battery |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | WAR OF WORDS $800: Also meaning "abusive criticism", this antiaircraft artillery term comes from the German "Flieger Abwehr Kanone" flak |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | ACROPOLIS NOW $800: Forces of this Italian city-state destroyed many of the structures on the Acropolis during a 1687 artillery barrage Venice |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE $2000: In 1785, at age 16, he was commissioned as a second lt. of artillery in the French Army; fame was soon to come Napoleon (Bonaparte) |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE $800: We were stationed together with the III Corps Artillery at Fort Sill in this state Oklahoma |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | GUNS $1000: Napoleon was the first to mass artillery in a "Grande" or "Big" one of these; we're positive it was a negative for the enemy a battery |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | TRIPLE "A" $1200: The World War II light show seen here comes from these antiaircraft guns |
| #4754, aired 2005-04-14 | BUSH $1000: ...who served as an artillery captain in World War I Prescott Bush |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | TRUMAN $400: Harry Truman served with distinction as a captain of artillery during this war World War I |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: Artillery chief William Pendleton was so religious, he gave these names to his 4 big guns Matthew, Mark, John & Luke |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Used by both sides in the war, a Napoleon was one of these booming pieces of artillery a cannon |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE $1000: Once a VMI science & artillery professor, this famous Confederate general is buried near the campus Stonewall Jackson |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | JUST SHOOT ME $1000: The name of this 105mm artillery piece seen here comes from the Czech word for catapult a howitzer |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $600: This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell shrapnel |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | U.S. MILITARY MUSEUMS $400: Cadets can visit its artillery museum that dates back to 1854, with a collection that began about 1779 West Point |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | U.S. MILITARY MUSEUMS $500: The U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum in Oklahoma has mementoes of this Apache chief who is buried nearby Geronimo |
| #2987, aired 1997-09-02 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1776 this future Secretary of the Treasury served as a captain of a New York artillery company Alexander Hamilton |
| #2855, aired 1997-01-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1000: Spelled one way it refers to an artillery weapon; spelled another way, it's an ecclesiastical rule Cannon/Canon |
| #2586, aired 1995-11-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: As an army captain, this future president commanded artillery in France during WWI Truman |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius served as an artillery engineer to this first Roman emperor Octavius Caesar (Caesar Augustus) |
| #2233, aired 1994-04-27 | CONFEDERATES $300: Meriwether Lewis Clark, son of this famed explorer, served as a colonel of artillery during the war William Clark |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard took this fort from his former artillery teacher Major Robert Anderson Fort Sumter |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | WORLD HISTORY $300 (Daily Double): In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war the Hundred Years' War |
| #1343, aired 1990-06-06 | WEAPONS $100: Large-caliber weapons, they can be heavy, field or siege artillery |
| #1226, aired 1989-12-25 | "C" HERE $300: It's not oats for artillery but soldiers considered expendable in war cannon fodder |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | LITERARY TERMS $800: In literature it's not artillery but a body of writings established as authentic a canon |
| #1056, aired 1989-03-20 | THE MILITARY $600: Most weapons that aren't handheld & use ammunition of a caliber larger than 1 in. are classed as this artillery |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | SONG LYRICS $600: "For it's hi! hi! hee! in" this when "the caissons go rolling along" the field artillery |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | LANDMARKS $300: The oldest military org. in the U.S., the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. meets in this Boston landmark Faneuil Hall |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | 8-LETTER WORDS $300: Named for a 19th century English artillery officer, it's a term for mine or shell fragments shrapnel |
| #931, aired 1988-09-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Both the Army's Field Artillery Center & Geronimo's grave are at Fort Sill in this state Oklahoma |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | WEAPONS $200: A bunch of artillery shells shot off at once, or just one shot in tennis volley |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | ARTILLERY $200: When on the ground, Snoopy would find this, an "AA gun" useful agienst attacks by the Red Baron anti-aircraft |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | ARTILLERY $400: In the world of artillery, a SAM doesn't mean a man's name but this type of weapon surface-to-air missile |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | ARTILLERY $600: 1st use of artillery with true efficiency was in the 17th century by this country's King Gustavus II Sweden |
| #813, aired 1988-03-02 | ENGLISH CITIES $200: This city next to the White Cliffs took a 4-year artillery bombardment during WWII Dover |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARTILLERY $100: The basic artillery unit of the U.S. Army, or a 9-volt Ray-o-vac a battery |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | ARTILLERY $500: The arced or curved path of flight a launched projectile takes a trajectory |
