| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Before his Rose Period, Picasso went through a period named for this color blue |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The "Mond Crucifixion" by this angelic Italian Renaissance artist was painted around 1502 when he was only 19 Raphael |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: For Luna Luna, an art amusement park, Keith Haring designed a carousel & this fellow graffiti artist, a Ferris wheel Basquiat |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: From 1612 to 1614 this Cretan-born artist painted the "Adoration of the Shepherds" for his own burial chapel El Greco |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: In contrast to the thick impasto of her contemporaries in this 2-word style, Helen Frankenthaler used a technique called "soak-stain" Abstract Expressionism |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1600: This Back to Africa promoter was an icon depicted on Chicago's now destroyed Wall of Respect, designed by BAM artists (Marcus) Garvey |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The Beatles were just one of many artists with whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit George Martin |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: The 2018 film "At Eternity's Gate" starred Willem Dafoe as this artist & Rupert Friend as his brother Theo van Gogh |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In "Factory Girl" Guy Pearce played this artist whose first "factory" was a studio on East 47th Street Andy Warhol |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1200: Star Ed Harris directed Marcia Gay Harden to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar as Lee Krasner in this 2000 biopic Pollock |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1600: "Midnight in Paris" found Owen Wilson's character bumping into Salvador Dali, portrayed by this Oscar-winning actor (Adrien) Brody |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer's Toulouse-Lautrec in this 1952 film Moulin Rouge |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Brussels museum has a "Landscape with the Fall of" him, later than the famous one, this time with Daedalus still up in the air Icarus |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Picasso liked to draw this bird, also his daughter's name translated from Spanish dove |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Van Gogh is among those who painted the parable of this "Good" guy who helped someone in need the Good Samaritan |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: 17th century Dutch people you can see at the Rijksmuseum include 34 in "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt & one in the work seen here by him Vermeer |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: The violence of the works in this early 20th century art style made critic Louis Vauxcelles call the painters "wild beasts" Fauvism |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In a work by John Everett Millais, young Jesus is helping out in the carpentry shop & has prophetically been cut by one of these a nail |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: This Impressionist set the scene on the Seine with "Luncheon of the Boating Party" Renoir |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Pamplona's Museo de Navarra has an 1804 portrait of the Marquis of San Adrian, a masterpiece by this Spanish painter Goya |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: Oh, her, the tale of this woman "and the Elders" is a common subject & Lorenzo Lotto's from 1517 is one of those with minimal boobage Susanna |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $1200: Artists Lauren Segar & Sharon Campbell created an 8-foot-tall "Chandelier of Lost" these; women sent in the mates of the lost ones Earrings |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: An estimated 80% of the visitors to the Louvre come just to see this portrait by Leonardo da Vinci the Mona Lisa |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Here's a self-portrait of this Baroque master who didn't make himself look too full-figured Rubens |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This artist also directed films, like "Lupe", which featured Edie Sedgwick Andy Warhol |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His painting of "Olympia" traveled to the U.S. for the first time for a 2023 exhibit on this French painter & his frenemy Degas Édouard Manet |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Teddy Roosevelt compared this artist's "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)" to the pattern on his bathroom rug Duchamp |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $400: Painted in tempera, Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" is the first known Tuscan painting on this, now synonymous with painting material canvas |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $800: Before tempera art, John Schoenherr did book covers; Frank Herbert called him the only man to visit this title place Dune |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $1200: This title of Edward Wadsworth's 1937 surrealistic work is a word for mystery & riddle used about Russia by Churchill around the same time Enigma |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $1600: In the Masaccio work in tempera seen here, the Christ child is eating grapes, as a reminder of the wine in this sacrament the Eucharist |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $2000: Learning to make it from his artist brother-in-law, he used tempera for the detailed brushwork of his iconic "Christina's World" Andrew Wyeth |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1600: It's a device for artists to make canvas taut & ready to be painted; the word also refers to something you carry an injured person on a stretcher |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This type of wall hanging, popular in the Middle Ages, takes its name from a word meaning "carpet" a tapestry |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $400: One of the few women mentioned by art biographer Vasari is Properzia de' Rossi, praised for a scene carved on this fruit item a peach pit |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He was a committed revolutionary, but this Frenchman's paintings of Napoleon are among his best known works David |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Let's have a discussion about this term for a solid surface, such as wood, for an oil painting a panel |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This "Birth of Venus" painter also did illustrations for written works like the "Map of Hell" for Dante's "Divine Comedy" Botticelli |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $200: This rock band tops the list with more than 183 million album sales, & that's all the clue you get The Beatles |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $400: The Eagles are No. 4 with 120 million album sales; this December 1976 release checks in with 26 million Hotel California |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $600: She's racked up more than 68 million album sales, many for soundtracks like "Funny Girl" Barbra Streisand |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $800: Syd Barrett was in this band when it sold its first of tens of millions of albums in 1967, but Dave Gilmour soon replaced him Pink Floyd |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $1000: "Straight Outta Lynwood" & "Alapalooza" are 2 of his 10 RIAA-certified gold albums "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $200: From the 16th century, Sofonisba Anguissola here records herself painting this classic subject of Western art Madonna & child |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 1867's "Forever Free" by Edmonia Lewis quotes this presidential edict on its base & in its title the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Her accomplished use of this technique of light & shadow made Artemisia Gentileschi a masterful talent of the Baroque era chiaroscuro |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "The Swing" is one of this 18th century Frenchman's works showing billowy dresses & frolics in gardens Fragonard |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: 19th century artists like Ingres & Renoir liked this subject, a French word for a woman who's part of a harem an odalisque |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $400: To respect native people who aided runaway slaves, artists like Flagboy Giz wear beaded suits for this event--Feb. 21 in 2023 Mardi Gras |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ART TERMS $200: Artists like Joan Miró used drawing sticks called these, also a term for any soft shade of color pastels |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | MADE GOOD $800: Dean Zelinsky, a noted maker of these, has crafted them for Sammy Hagar, Nine Inch Nails & many other artists guitars |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $800: (Questlove presents the clue.) This use of snippets from other artists' songs is a hip-hop tradition; in 2006 the Roots had a half hour to clear one from Radiohead before our album got shipped, so we got Jay-Z to find Thom Yorke at the gym a sample |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS $400: The CBS crew, not a news team but this kind of street artists, are the subject of "Can't Be Stopped" graffiti artists |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | SOUTH AMERICANA $400: The Cuzco School was a group of multiethnic artists centered in what's now this country Peru |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $200: Here's this silversmith, a teapot in hand, in a portrait by John Singleton Copley Paul Revere |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1929 she painted "The Lawrence Tree", which she enjoyed gazing upon at D.H. Lawrence's New Mexico ranch Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $600: One of Albert Pinkham Ryder's best known works is the macabre-toned painting "The Race Track", or this "On a Pale Horse" Death |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s this Iowa native designed a mural called "Breaking the Prairie Sod" for Iowa State University (Grant) Wood |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1000: Roy Lichtenstein's comic book style paintings include "Blam" & this! of 2 planes in combat, a title reminiscent of a pop music duo Whaam! |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Aged almost 90, Picasso painted himself as one of these before a huge crowd, holding a sword as if it were a paintbrush a bullfighter |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $800: Francisco de Zurbarán liked to paint Francis, his namesake; the patched robe shows Franciscan monks' vow of this poverty |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" a maja |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: The title of this 1656 group portrait by Velazquez means "the ladies in waiting" Las Meninas |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1570s this immigrant from Crete painted "The Disrobing of Christ" for the cathedral of Toledo, Spain El Greco |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: This tool is used by artists to support their work; here's a painting by Rembrandt that shows one in the foreground an easel |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $400: (Questlove presents the clue.) For the soundtrack album of my documentary, "Summer of Soul", I chose artists that are as relevant to our time as to 1969 when the concerts took place, including 2 songs by this singer and the Family Stone Sly |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Vasari stated that this famous portrait was commissioned by the subject's husband, silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo the Mona Lisa |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $800: A man & a woman hold each other close in Dance in the Country by this French painter Renoir |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This artist donated the proceeds from her portrait of Breonna Taylor to fund college scholarships Amy Sherald |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Here's a portrait of this provocative photographer who was also a great art subject (Robert) Mapplethorpe |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This contemporary Chinese artist & activist made the film "Human Flow", about displaced people & refugees Ai Weiwei |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $1000: Adventurous artists are described by this hyphenated French word, which used to refer to the leading body of an army avant-garde |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE ACTOR'S STUDIO $2,000 (Daily Double): Charlie Chaplin banded together with 3 other moviemakers to found this studio in 1919 United Artists |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Her self-portrait titled "Diego & I" sold for $34.9 million at a 2021 auction, a record for her Frida Kahlo |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: Dancers were a favorite subject of this artist as in his 1879 work shown here Degas |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull a Minotaur |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man Barack Obama |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: This New Englander showed the struggle between humans & nature in seascapes like "Fog Warning" & "The Herring Net" Homer |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $200: The largest dome since antiquity was constructed in the 1430s by the architect Brunelleschi in this city Florence |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $400: In 2016 Leonardo's painting of this preacher in Mark 1 got its first cleaning since 1802 John the Baptist |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $600: A master of print making, Albrecht Dürer used this grainy technique to great effect as seen here woodcuts |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | SUPER-DUPER SUPERS $800: This superhero quartet of TV & film all have the names of Renaissance artists the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $800: Born Jacopo Robusti, this painter of biblical subjects like "Susanna & the Elders" had a name meaning "little dyer" Tintoretto |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS $1000: One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as "La Bella", "The Beautiful Woman" Titian |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: In 2020 Billboard named its "Greatest of All Time Latin Artists", with this late "Queen of Tejano" as the Top Female Artist Selena |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $1600: Paris' Hotel de Rambouillet was the site of a famous one of these female-run gatherings of artists & intellectuals a salon |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $200: Her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" commemorates their brief affair during his exile Frida Kahlo |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $400: Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself water lilies |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $600 (Daily Double): Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist's measurements from his former tailor Rodin |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $600: A collage by Romare Bearden imagines this wanderer coming home not to Ithaca but to West Africa Odysseus |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $1000: A portrait by him, Leonardo's almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million, a record for an old master not named Leonardo Botticelli |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $200: After a trip to Egypt, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme captured men being attentive inside one of these structures a mosque |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $400: In 1872 Edgar Degas fittingly vacationed & painted in this southern state; you can visit the house he stayed at Louisiana |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $600: Monet was fond of setting up shop by this river & making impressions of the Palace of Westminster the Thames |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $800: Kandinsky, a Muscovite, headed west to Germany, painting in Munich & teaching at this "house of building" school in Weimar Bauhaus |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $1000: Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner based the painting seen here on a visit he made to this city Venice |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | NOT AN ANSWER $800: Strumming this instrument, Einer Bankz has teamed up with hip-hop artists like Chance the Rapper a ukulele |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THANKS VERMILION $2000: As in the work seen here, ancient artists got the pigment vermilion from cinnabar, the main ore of this metal mercury |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Pierre La mure's 1950 novel "Moulin Rouge" was based on the life of this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1200: This onetime stockbroker abandoned business for art, traveled widely & died in the South Pacific in 1903 Gauguin |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1600: The most celebrated French artist of his day, he painted works like "The Oath of the Horatii" in a Neoclassical style David |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Granddaughter of the Rococo artist Fragonard, she aligned with the Impressionists & her "Dressmaking Lesson" is seen here Berthe Morisot |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" was originally conceived as a representation of this poet gazing at the gates of hell Dante |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $1200: He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $1600: For years, Americans had two events each Sunday--church & the show hosted by this man who brought many new artists into their homes Ed Sullivan |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | ACTOR-MOGULS $1000: Said about this studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford & others: "Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum" United Artists |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SEE, IT STARTS WITH "CL" $1600: Artists often depicted this muse of history keeping her records Clio |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $400: They're the twice-married Mexican power couple seen here Kahlo & Rivera |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $800: He painted "Lady with a Fan" during his Rose Period (Pablo) Picasso |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $1200: This surrealist painter & printmaker was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904 & died there in 1989 (Salvador) Dalí |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $1600: A grave marker for this centenarian says, "Her primitive paintings... preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside" Grandma Moses |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $2000: Commenting on his portrait by this man, Bobby Kennedy said he thought it was marvelous, "but I don't have red spots all over my face" Lichtenstein |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $2000: Her staining technique set her apart from other abstract expressionists & influenced younger artists Helen Frankenthaler |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $400: Thomas Hovenden concentrated on everyday people like "The Village" this worker, a subject of 19th century poetry as well blacksmith |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $800: Suzanne Valadon worked as this for Renoir & Toulouse-Lautrec before she began painting her own works model |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $1200: Meindert Hobbema is best known for the 1689 work that has two of these optical points--one down the road & one in the sky vanishing points |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $1600: Jean Metzinger has been called the third artist in this movement & his 1912 treatise on it was one of the first Cubism |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ARTISTS $2000: Seen here, the work of Alphonse Legros may have influenced this man's most famous portrait; they were friends until an 1867 fight (James) Whistler |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | GENIUS: ARETHA $800: (Cynthia Erivo presents the clue.) Recording artists in their own rights, Aretha's sisters Carolyn & Erma provided backing vocals on many of her hits, including this classic that says, "Every chain has got a weak link" "Chain Of Fools" |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Barcelona museum added glass to block toxic fumes from an Alexander Calder fountain that pumps not water but this liquid metal mercury |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "Ferret in a Brothel" & "Elvis Descending a Staircase" are 2 of the terrible paintings in MOBA, the Museum of this Bad Art |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: The Reichstag was draped in fabric by the husband & wife team of this man & Jeanne-Claude, who were born on the same day Christo |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lesser-known works by this American painter included a "Nocturne in Black & Gold" & a work of "Harmony in Blue & Brown" James Abbott McNeil Whistler |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: An annual floating parade in the Netherlands is named for this artist & seeks to emulate his "Earthly Delights" Hieronymus Bosch |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | ART MOVEMENTS $2000: Led by Robert Henri, "The Eight" were a group of artists who tried to show a grittier side of city life in this "rubbish" movement the Ashcan School |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Jasper Johns completed the first of his paintings of this in 1955, so he only had to do 48 stars the U.S. flag |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1924 Andre Breton left this art -ism to help begin the equally wacky Surrealism Dadaism |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: The subject of a 2014 film, Margaret Keane was noted for her paintings of waifs with this distinction, the film's title big eyes |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "Apples and Oranges" is by this influential post-impressionist whom Henri Matisse called "The Father of Us All" (Paul) Cézanne |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Historically impossible, this Raphael painting put Pythagoras, Epicurus, Socrates & Diogenes all in one "School" the Athens School |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: Julian Schnabel's portrait of this pop artist depicts him wearing a girdle made necessary when he was shot in 1968 Andy Warhol |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $800: This city's Millennium Park is home to Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate", also known as the Bean Chicago |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1200: A pioneer of the multimedia events called Happenings, Al Hansen was also the grandfather of this innovative alt-rock musician Beck Hansen |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: A book called "The Magic Mirror of" this Dutch artist gives insight into how he created those optical effects M.C. Escher |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $2000: This 20th century American artist depicted loneliness in his isolated urban figures, as in "Automat" Hopper |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Hauptmarkt Square in Nuremberg, Germany.) Many great artists have called Nuremberg home, including this Renaissance master renown for both paintings like his self-portrait & woodcuts like the series "The Revelation of St. John" Albrecht Durer |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | DUNCAN $1600: Artist Duncan Grant was a member of this London-named group of the 20th century writers & artists of whom he painted portraits the Bloomsbury Group |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $400: Britannica says this artist who illustrated the "Vitruvian Man" "epitomized the renaissance humanist ideal" Leonardo |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $800: Maybe it was because she took up painting in her 70s that Anna Mary Robertson Moses got this nickname Grandma Moses |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $1200: In the 17th century this Dutch painter charged students the princely sum of 100 guilders; Flinck & Bol were 2 star pupils Rembrandt |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $1600: In a 1509 poem he wrote, "My brush, above me all the time, dribbles paint so my face makes a fine floor for droppings" Michelangelo |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | ARTISTS $2000: One of Poussin's famous works depicts the biblical adoration of this, though he actually painted a full-grown bull the Golden Calf |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | NOW LISTEN TO ME $800: I'm snapping celery to make the sound of a breaking bone; I'm one of these movie sound "artists" a foley artist |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: The style of this Iowan was mainly Midwestern regionalism, not "American Gothic" (Grant) Wood |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: In 1868 she submitted "The Mandolin Player" to the Paris Salon under the name Mary Stevenson & it was accepted Cassatt |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: This artist depicted 3 customers in an all-night diner & "the loneliness of a large city" in his painting "Nighthawks" Hopper |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He began as a graffiti artist in New York subways before graduating to large outdoor murals Keith Haring |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: The painting seen here shows the influence of Jackson Pollock on the art of this woman, his wife (Lee) Krasner |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $200: Here's this artist with a tropical vibe going on at his home in Figueres, Spain Dalí |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $400: In the 1860s, after this American artist settled in England, his mother moved in with him & sat for his most famous painting Whistler |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $600: Here's this artist & his wife Alice enjoying some time away from Giverny in Venice's St. Mark's Square (Claude) Monet |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1,000 (Daily Double): Well-established in 1639, he paid the hefty price of 13,000 guilders for a house in Amsterdam that today houses his museum Rembrandt |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1000: While visiting van Gogh at Arles, this painter did his own take on "The Night Café" and Madame Ginoux all in one Gauguin |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | HOBBIES & CRAFTS $600: Dan Robbins created these kits in the 1950s to appeal to budding adult artists; beginner kits came with 20 colors Paint by Numbers |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | THE HIP-HOP ERA $800: With artists like Jay-Z & LL Cool J, "the Motown of hip-hop" is this record label co-founded by Rick Rubin Def Jam |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Robert Delaunay introduced vibrant color into Cubism & is known for his series of paintings of this French structure the Eiffel Tower |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Some scholars suggest that Leonardo da Vinci disguised himself as a woman for this portrait aka "La Gioconda" Mona Lisa |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Mauritshuis, a museum in this seat of Dutch government, is home to "Girl with a Pearl Earring" & "The Goldfinch" The Hague |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Berthe Morisot's brother-in-law, he influenced the Impressionists with works like "Luncheon on the Grass" Édouard Manet |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1,800 (Daily Double): This artist called his New York studio "The Factory" Andy Warhol |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: With more than 100 million albums sold, this "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer is among the top-selling country artists of all time Shania Twain |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | AMERICAN NAMES $2000: This artist who made mobiles went into the family business: his father & grandfather were both artists (Alexander) Calder |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $1200: She ran a salon out of her home for some of the leading artists and writers of the day Gertrude Stein |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $400: Clara Peeters was a 17th century artist who specialized in this type of painting on inanimate objects still life |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $800: While working in Rome, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer befriended these married British poets and cast their clasped hands the Brownings |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1200: In the '60s British painter Bridget Riley was a leader of this movement that played tricks on your eyes Op art |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1600: In the 1890s, while at Antibes on the coast of France, she painted "The Boating Party" (Mary) Cassatt |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $2000: "The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction" is a recent series of works by this "Windy City" feminist artist Judy Chicago |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Artists Klee & Gauguin Paul |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $800: In the 1980s Cyndi Lauper & Wham! were among the artists who made their early U.S. TV appearances on this Dick Clark series American Bandstand |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRIZE $400: For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city; one winner's work is seen here Rome |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This American pop artist used a comic book style in paintings like "Whaam!" & "Drowning Girl" Lichtenstein |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This 1863 Manet masterpiece caused a scandal, as one of the women picnicking in what may be the Bois de Boulogne is nude Luncheon on the Grass |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Born in Rotterdam in 1904, he entered the U.S. as a stowaway & painted houses before becoming an abstract expressionist (Willem) de Kooning |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: This English engraver is known for his 1730s series called "The Rake's Progress" (William) Hogarth |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew show a painting on the monitor.) Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint a scene of his house at Auvers Dr. Gachet |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $400: Home to a lively nightlife & popular with artists, Santa Cecilia is a district in this most populous Brazilian city Sao Paulo |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $400: This singer paints angels, one in an artwork called "Rhiannon" Stevie Nicks |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $800: Enjoy this Oscar-winning actor's work entitled "Tony, Self Portrait" perhaps with a nice Chianti Anthony Hopkins |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $1200: "Bisou Moi", or "Kiss Me", was painted by this Irish James Bond actor for wife Keely Shaye Smith Pierce Brosnan |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $1600: She already had 2 exhibitions under her belt before stardom in "Charlie's Angels" on film & "Elementary" on TV Lucy Liu |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $2000: Among this African-American actor's paintings are self-portraits as Lando Calrissian "Billy Dee" Williams |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | LIFE IN PLYMOUTH COLONY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Plimoth Plantation.) Re-enactors today at Plimoth Plantation wear what the actual Pilgrims did, like what they'd worn in England. The image of black hats and buckled shoes came from artists during this British era the Victorian era |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $2000: Seen here in a self-portrait is this Italian painter, best known for writing about the lives of other artists (Giorgio) Vasari |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | PENCILS $2000: Artists often use pencil to make a study, which like a musical study piece, has this French name etude |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off The Night Watch |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $400: The pensive pose of the figure in a Rodin sculpture originally called "The Poet" earned it this name The Thinker |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo Adam |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Here's "Symphony in White, No. 2" by this American who often gave musical titles to his paintings (James Abbott McNeill) Whistler |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $2,600 (Daily Double): Pastel colors & asymmetry are features of this style of Antoine Watteau, a reaction against Baroque art Rococo |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 14th century artist Giotto was a master of this technique, painting directly on freshly plastered walls fresco |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Theodore Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" from 1819 depicted the survivors of one of these a shipwreck |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: A whole movement took its name from his painting "Impression: Sunrise" (Claude) Monet |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Before he hit the big time, El Greco was a painter of these small works often contained in a locket or "portrait box" a miniature |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Seen here is one in a series with this 3-word avian title by abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | APPVERTISING $1000: This app: "Discover amazing new music and directly support the artists who make it" Bandcamp |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES & A BOAT $1200: This train sung of by blues artists got its name from its 12:05 A.M. departure en route to Parchman Penitentiary the "Midnight Special" |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | TAKE "OUT" $1000: The term this type of "art" by self-taught non-mainstream artists was coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 outsider art |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | STUFF ON STAMPS $3,000 (Daily Double): A set of stamps features posters designed by Depression-era artists for this New Deal agency the WPA, or the Works Progress Administration |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: Alfred Molina played him in "Frida" Diego Rivera |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In "Midnight in Paris", Adrien Brody portrayed this 20th-century artist (Salvador) Dalí |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1,400 (Daily Double): 2001 film with John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge! |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1600: Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in this 1950s biopic Lust for Life |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Willem Dafoe played Van Gogh in this 2018 film from artist/director Julian Schnabel At Eternity's Gate |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Edvard Munch was out with 2 friends when "the sky became blood... over the deep blue fjord", inspiring this 1893 work The Scream |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Mexican woman taught herself to paint while recovering from a 1925 bus accident; 30+ operations followed (Frida) Kahlo |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1897 he entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid but found the classes stupid; he did okay on his own Picasso |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Born on Crete, Domenikos Theotokopolous moved to Spain, where he became better known by this name El Greco |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Manet painted the bar at this Paris music hall in part by setting up a fake one in his studio but with a real barmaid the Folies-Bergère |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A first century B.C. writer said of sculptor Praxiteles that he imbued this material with the passions of the soul marble |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Last name of the family that includes 3 generations of artists--illustrator N.C., Andrew & Jamie Wyeth |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: He worked with Giorgione on frescos in 1508, then took over as Venice's greatest 1-named painter Titian |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Picasso saw himself & this painter as the Wright Brothers of Cubism & even called him "Wilbur" Braque |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1504 Durer tried to show perfect human forms in this pair, each holding a tree branch Adam and Eve |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Diego Rivera was best known for creating these large wall paintings that depicted Mexican life murals |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The woman in his "American Gothic" painting was modeled after his sister Nan (Grant) Wood |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Partly done with spray paint, a skull by this late graffiti artist of Haitian descent sold for over $100 million in 2017 (Jean-Michel) Basquiat |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Long identified as St. Catherine of Alexandria holding a spiked wheel, a 1930s restoration revealed that underneath was a lady holding a unicorn by this Renaissance master from Urbino Raphael |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): It was the married name of sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt, who founded a museum of American art in New York City Gertrude Whitney |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | WINDMILLS $600: Windmills are strongly identified with this country, whose artists have made them a favorite subject, as seen here Netherlands |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ACRONYMS $2000: They're the 3 groups that form the CAP in ASCAP composers, authors and publishers |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $200: Country music fans get to meet & hear their favorite artists at the annual CMA Festival in this city--where else? Nashville |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $400: This painter of "Water Lilies" met Renoir when the 2 were students in the same painter's studio Monet |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $800: Ingres & David both worked in this "new" style based on antiquity that made use of crisp outlines Neoclassicism |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $1200: Fragonard's works like "The Swing", seen here, exemplify this frothy style that originated in Paris Rococo |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $1600: After seeing open warfare in the streets of Paris in 1830, Delacroix began his allegory of her "Leading the People" Liberty Leading the People |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an example of chronophotography on the monitor.) In the 1880s, Etienne-Jules Marey developed chronophotography, in which the entire sequence of a movement was captured in a single image, inspiring the superimposed images of a figure descending a staircase in the 1912 painting by this French artist Marcel Duchamp |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | YOUR STYLE $600: "Disappearing" 4-letter hairstyle sported by musical artists like Bobby Brown back in the day a fade |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $400: The painter Peter Jackson captures this 1666 conflagration the Great Fire of London |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $800: This Spaniard's 19th century series truly captures "The Disasters of War" Goya |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $1200: This mainland Italian volcano erupted in 1817 during J.M.W. Turner's lifetime Vesuvius |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $2000: This French painter shows us a tiger in a tropical storm Henri Rousseau |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE DISASTER ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1895's "What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost", this artist depicts the brutal cattle wars of the west Remington |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $5 (Daily Double): A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's 'stache Salvador Dali |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for "three tablets" a triptych |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night" a Nocturne |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: An 1876 review in Le Figaro called an exhibit of this movement "an appalling spectacle" & the artists "lunatics" Impressionism |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Jean-Francois Millet gave dignity to the peasantry in works like the one seen here, called this, a person who strews seed The Sower |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | GENIUS: PICASSO $400: Living in Barcelona in 1899, Picasso befriended fellow artists & dodged police looking for these radicals against all government anarchists |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | DAMON RUNYONESQUE GANGSTER LINGO $800: Meaning con artists or swindlers, it was the title of a 1990 Anjelica Huston-John Cusack film Grifters |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $2,000 (Daily Double): He painted the yellow house that he had rented in Arles, hoping to establish a studio of the south with fellow artists van Gogh |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Otto Dix did several of this type of portrait, including one "As a Soldier" & one as the war god Mars self-portrait |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $600: "Girl Arranging Her Hair" from 1886 is by this female American impressionist (Mary) Cassatt |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s an exiled Leon Trotsky & his wife came to stay with these 2 married artists in Mexico Kahlo and Rivera |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This English landscape painter's 1816-1817 work "Flatford Mill" demonstrates his distinctive use of clouds & sky John Constable |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | GRAPHICS $200: Something held by artists as they work, it can also refer to the array of colors a designer can choose from a palette |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THERMODYNAMICS $2000: Some physicists are real bringdown artists & explain the universe is running down to a lifeless state of "maximum" this entropy |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | DOCUMENTARIES $2000: Some wondered if this film about street artists like Banksy was a documentary or a hoax Exit Through the Gift Shop |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | THE HANDMADE TALE $400: The Academy of Handmade Artists & Supporters Awards include Best Artist in this pottery-making art ceramics |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This artist who portrayed the Moulin Rouge in his paintings was a character in the film "Moulin Rouge!" (Toulouse) Lautrec |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: One of her paintings of the 1940s is "Over the River to Grandma's House" (was it her own house?) Grandma Moses |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Dürer depicted this Roman hero at labor, shooting the man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marshes Hercules |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Discovered on an Aegean island on April 8, 1820, this marble statue was presented to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre the Venus de Milo |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Though the Spanish court painter, he portrayed the vulgarity of the family of Charles IV Francisco Goya |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | "M"PORTANT PAINTERS $1200: (Alex presents the clue from the Norton Simon Museum.) Very few artists were as expressive in the use of colors as this man, whose "Odalisque with a Tambourine" was inspired by a trip to Morocco (Henri) Matisse |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $400: In 1816 this onetime court painter to Spanish royalty published "Tauromaquia", his etchings on bullfighting Goya |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $800: Although best known for his nonsense poems such as "The Jumblies", he was an accomplished landscape painter Edward Lear |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1200: This 17th century Dutch master who had at least 7 daughters painted "The Milkmaid" & "A Maid Asleep" (Johannes) Vermeer |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1600: This Venetian's use of his iconic red color can be seen here in his 1548 work "Empress Isabella of Portugal" Titian |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $2000: This Austrian known for using gold leaf in his paintings was a founder of the Vienna Secession Gustav Klimt |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | MOVIE STUDIOS $800: United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and this acting sweetheart Mary Pickford |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 2015, after 10 years of study, a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonardo portrait the Mona Lisa |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Look, no hands! It's this famed marble sculpture by Alexandros Venus de Milo |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $600: This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a fictitious farmer & his daughter American Gothic |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The Henry Moore sundial seen here, "Man Enters the Cosmos", greets visitors to this city's Adler Planetarium Chicago |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Paris' Musee de l'Orangerie is home to a set of "Water Lilies" canvases by this Frenchman Monet |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: A true Fauvist artists often didn't do this usual 3-letter word to his paints, but applied them vividly from the tube mix |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $800: Lauren Harris's "Above Lake Superior" is a work by this country's Group of Seven Canada |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1200: The New Mexico landscape inspired some of her best-known paintings, including "Black Cross" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: Magritte said, "To be" this type of artist means "being always on the lookout for what has never been" a surrealist |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $400: If this ancient statue was a real woman, her measurements would be 51-38-47 the Venus de Milo |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In 2001 Artist Alma Lopez caused protest with her depiction of this woman in a swimsuit the Virgin Mary |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Winslow Homer often depicted the coast of Maine in this type of painting, also the title of an Edward Albee play seascape |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Andre Breton called the art of this fellow 20th c. artist "the most hallucinatory known until now" (Salvador) Dali |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $2000: This author of "Lives of the Artists" has been credited with introducing the term "Renaissance" around 1550 Vasari |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Not sure if it's ready for Playboy, but one of this painter's "Nude"s is seen here Marcel Duchamp |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALLITERATION $400: In 1991 a group of artists came up with this as a symbol of support for those living with AIDS & HIV a red ribbon |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1200: This city's Las Ramblas is a favorite meeting place for young Catalonians & a mecca for street artists Barcelona |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | ARTISTES $2000: Self-taught artists like Camille Bombois are called naive, or this term, like cavemen primitive |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1945's "Spellbound", Alfred Hitchcock filmed a trippy dream sequence designed by this Surrealist (Salvador) Dalí |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Intonaco is the final, smooth coat of plaster spread onto a wall in the buon', or true, type of this painting technique fresco |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: A circa 1620 portrait of Cornelis van der Geest shows the pointy beard that bears this artist's name van Dyck |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: As a type of ink, this brown pigment secreted by cuttlefish has been around since at least ancient Roman times sepia |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: "High Cliff, Coast of Maine" is a typical work by this American (Winslow) Homer |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Edgar Leeteg was known as the "American" this artist because of his many works featuring Tahitian people Gauguin |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: Fittingly, his last published work was created for the USA's bicentennial; he died 2 years later Norman Rockwell |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: Andrew Wyeth said this type of painting using egg yolk "is not the medium for swiftness" tempera |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He never completed his most famous painting of George Washington, the "Athenaeum" portrait (Gilbert) Stuart |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: "Early Sunday Morning" by Edward Hopper is just 1 masterpiece in this NYC museum dedicated to American art the Whitney |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | 125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $2000: The greatest classical artists have been Hall regulars, including this cellist, who's on the board of trustees Yo-Yo Ma |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ART TERMS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a sketch on the monitor.) To give the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing, artists create a mesh-like pattern of lines in a technique called this crosshatching |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Born in 1577 & named for two saints, he's the Flemish master seen here in a self-portrait Peter Paul Rubens |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His home & gardens in Giverny have been open to the public since 1980 Monet |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: He hadn't yet invented Pointillism when he did the painting seen here, his first large-scale work Seurat |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: You can see his "Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: The painting seen here is one of eight scenes that make up this Brit's "A Rake's Progress" (William) Hogarth |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $2000: The 19th century's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists & poets included a brother & sister of this family the Rossetti |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | THE BROAD $800: Artists want us to think about familiar images like this man, who has described the flag as seen, but not looked at (Jasper) Johns |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | MUSIC RECORDING $400: Abbreviated A&R, it's the record company dept. responsible for signing & developing new acts artists & repertoire |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Add one letter to "titan" to get this titan of Italian art, seen here in a self-portrait Titian |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $800: Pope Alexander VII was a patron of Bernini, who designed the forecourt of this basilica St. Peter |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Wordsworth wrote of this Leonardo painting, "The annunciation of the dreadful truth made to the twelve, survives" "The Last Supper" |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: Botticelli's masterpiece "Allegory of Spring" also has this Italian title "La Primavera" |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: One of Raphael's most famous works is an allegory of philosophy called "The School of" this place Athens |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a cave in France, these prehistoric humans were skillful artists & toolmakers Cro-Magnon |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Poussin & Leonardo each painted an "Adoration of" the biblical trio known by this 4-letter name the Magi |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "14th Street at 6th Avenue" was created under the auspices of the WPA, part of this 1930s government program the New Deal |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: German artist Max Ernst married a girl named Peggy who came from this art-loving American family the Guggenheims |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: In "Santa Maria Della Vittoria", you can see how Bernini depicted not the agony, but this of St. Teresa the ecstasy |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: He likened crawling Christina Olson, the subject of his famed 1948 painting, to "a crab on a New England shore" Andrew Wyeth |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | WHO SAID THAT? $800: A 19th century painter: "Ah, if only all artists had enough to live on" van Gogh |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Franz Pforr was one of the 19th century Nazarenes, so called for their interest in the era of this book, as in Franz' work here the Bible (the New Testamanet accepted) |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His 1863 "Luncheon on the Grass" caused scandal in France; hope you don't confuse him with another artist (Édouard) Manet |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: One of his first great works done after moving to Spain was "The Disrobing of Christ" from the late 1570s El Greco |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bridget Riley made viewers eyes hurt as a major figure in the 1960s style of geometry & illusions called this "art" op art |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sometimes done to color wood, it's also Helen Frankenthaler's technique of pouring paint & letting it run stain |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Bill Magrath's "Returning Fire", seen here, depicts the 1862 battle between these 2 vessels the Monitor & the Merrimack |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Brit's sister Frances Reynolds, who lived with him as a housekeeper, called him a "gloomy tyrant" Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: When he died in 1989, he was buried on the floor of the main room of his museum in Figueras, Spain Salvador Dali |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His masterpieces painted in Delft included "View of Delft" & "Woman with a Water Jug" (Jan) Vermeer |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This Frenchman experimented with light in series paintings, as in his "Haystacks" under different weather & times of day Monet |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) A self-taught late bloomer who only began to paint seriously in his 40s, this French artist earned the admiration of avant-garde artists with what is often called his naive style Henri Rousseau |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $400: In 2015 MoMA presented its first exhibition devoted exclusively to the work of this widow of a Beatle Yoko Ono |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $800: She was close to 80 & trying to earn a little money when her paintings were discovered at a Hoosick Falls, N.Y. drugstore Grandma Moses |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1600: In 1938, Alice Neel moved to this 2-word area of Manhattan & began to paint its Puerto Rican community Spanish Harlem |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $2000: She got down to a little monkey business for the self-portrait seen here Frida Kahlo |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WOMEN ARTISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): Seen with one of her paintings, that's the real Margaret Keane, whose story was told in this 2014 film Big Eyes |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Legend says Simonetta Vespucci was the model for Botticelli's "The Birth of" this goddess of love Venus |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: He painted himself after he moved to Giverny in 1883 Monet |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Delacroix' unfinished painting of Chopin & this lover was later cut in 2; each is now displayed in a different museum George Sand |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Artist who painted the 1948 work seen here that features a Maine neighbor who suffered from polio Andrew Wyeth |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $4,800 (Daily Double): Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his 1872-73 work "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | STAMPS $800: Asher Durand's "Summer Afternoon" is on a stamp celebrating the school of artists named for this New York river the Hudson River |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | A WORLD OF ART $800: The lesser known St. Roderick of Cordoba is depicted by one of this country's great 17th-century artists Spain |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | PRESENTED IN 2D $1000: Renaissance artists developed the linear type of this, using converging parallels to make 2D look like 3D perspective |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $400: In 2003 paintings by this U2 singer were auctioned off to raise money for the Irish Hospice Foundation Bono |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $800: This rocker portrays himself & his wife Iman in his lithographs (David) Bowie |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $1200: Ronnie Wood featured fellow members of this band in his series of prints called "Paint It Black" the Rolling Stones |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $1600: Life's a beach for this actress, who creates paintings like the one here, and also has her own "Open Hearts" jewelry line Jane Seymour |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $2000: This Oscar-winning British star of "Surviving Picasso" is something of a Picasso himself & also composes classical music Anthony Hopkins |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: This modern American artist was known as the "Father of the Mobile" (Alexander) Calder |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: In his "Nighthawks", he modeled the 2 male diners on himself & the female diner on his wife (Edward) Hopper |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: Born Robert Kahn in 1915, he took a new professional name as the creator of Batman Bob Kane |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: A critic accused this American of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" with his 1875 "Nocturne in Black and Gold" Whistler |
| #7044, aired 2015-04-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): His 1885 work "The Fog Warning" shows a lone New England fisherman rowing a dory Winslow Homer |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | SOUL $800: The soul sound of this Tennessee city was exemplified by artists like Otis Redding & Booker T. & the MG's Memphis |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | ORGANIZATIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Utah institute is devoted to discovering & training new filmmakers, composers & theater artists Sundance |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS $400: His 5 Sun singles were released in a 13-month period, the last being "Mystery Train" in August 1955 Elvis Presley |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS $800: "Whole lotta" this in Jerry Lee Lewis' Sun release that was the first song played on the national "American Bandstand" Shakin' Goin' On |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SUN RECORDS ARTISTS $1200: The first artist to release an album with Sun Records; his 1957 release included "Cry, Cry, Cry" & "Folsom Prison Blues" Johnny Cash |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | TOOTHPASTE $400: Inspired by artists' paints, in 1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield was the 1st to sell tooth-paste in these tubes |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | PROHIBITED AIRLINE CARRY‑ONS $800: Sorry, Rembrandt, none of that flammable turpentine, used by artists as this type of diluting agent solvent (or paint thinner) |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: "The Bloody-Shouldered Arabian" was one of many of these animals depicted by 18th c. artist John Wootton horse |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the J. Paul Getty Museum.) In the 1770s, Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of this friend, the founder of a London auction house; he's leaning against 1 of the artist's own paintings & is holding what is probably an auction list (James) Christie |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1200: We wonder if this acclaimed artist, a grandson of Sigmund, liked to psychoanalyze his subjects as well as paint them Lucian Freud |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: Hoping to revive the style of early Italian artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti helped found the Pre-this Brotherhood Raphaelite |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sir George Frampton's most famous work is a sculpture of this kiddy lit character in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | GERMAN CITIES $1600: In Augsburg, home of these "elder" & "younger" portrait artists, a high school bears their name Holbein |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $400: (Alex reports from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.) In his series paintings, this artist concentrated on a single subject to show how the light changes depending on the time of day & the season; here is one of his 30 "Wheatstacks," in this case, on a winter morning Monet |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $800: This Scandinavian's paintings of human emotions in the 1890s included "Anxiety" & "Jealousy" (Edvard) Munch |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1826 Thomas Cole settled in Catskill, New York & started painting the works that launched this "School" the Hudson River School |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: This artist who gained fame illustrating books by Owen Wister is seen here in a self-portrait on a horse Frederic Remington |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $2000: Between 1819 & 1825 this British landscape artist painted a series of 6 scenes on the River Stour (John) Constable |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: There's no witch & no rainbow in John Steuart Curry's painting "Tornado Over" this state Kansas |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In 2009 his 1962 painting "200 One Dollar Bills" sold for a lot more than that; it fetched $43.8 million Andy Warhol |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Dale Chihuly is famous for his fabulous creations in this medium glass |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: James Earle Fraser, whose "End of the Trail" sculpture shows a weary Indian on his horse, also designed this coin the buffalo nickel |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Best known for his sporty prints & paintings like the one seen here, he passed away in 2012 at age 91 LeRoy Neiman |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Madrid museum has a Velazquez door & quite a few Velazquez works the Prado |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Eugene Delacroix made several lithographs depicting this Shakespeare play--here's the graveyard scene Hamlet |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: The British painter & engraver Gainsborough DuPont was the nephew & assistant of this artist Thomas Gainsborough |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" was bought by an American & came stateside in 1924 (Georges) Seurat |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Alex reports from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Everything about Fragonard's "Happy Lovers", from the pastel colors to the playful subject matter & the abundant use of flowers, exemplifies this frothy art style rococo |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $400: It's about a 30-minute walk from the Rembrandt House Museum to the Amsterdam museum named for this artist van Gogh |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Fauvist designed Vence's Rosaire Chapel, down to its vestments & stained-glass windows Matisse |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This Leonardo drawing of a man inside a circle & a square is named after a Roman architect Vitruvian Man |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Female Impressionists included Mary Cassatt & this femme, Manet's sister-in-law (Berthe) Morisot |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): His 1911 work "I and the Village" evokes the look of his Hasidic hometown Marc Chagall |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.) Films like "The Three Caballeros" resulted from a goodwill tour that Walt & some artists took in the early 1940s, at FDR's request, to combat the spread of this ideology of Mussolini & Franco fascism |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | THE ART OF GEORGIA O'KEEFFE $3,000 (Daily Double): O'Keeffe said, "Artists who spend any time in" this city near Santa Fe "have to paint the Ranchos Church"; here's her take Taos |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $500 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) Theatergoers are dancing in the aisles at "Motown: The Musical" about this record-company founder & his legendary artists Berry Gordy |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $400: Drake & Eminem were featured artists on "Loud", an album from this single-named singer Rihanna |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | A "BAR"RAGE OF CLUES $2000: This school of artists that included Millet & Rousseau took its name from a French village Barbizon |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | SYMBOLS $200: Renaissance artists used an ear of this as a symbol of the harvest corn |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE GONNA MAKE IT $800: This word for an assemblage of items pasted on a single surface was first used to refer to works by Dada & surreal artists collage |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $400: "Acrobat on a Ball" is from this Spaniard's Rose Period Picasso |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Stuart Davis was influenced by this 20th c. music style; the title of his 1940s "Mellow Pad" echoes the slang of its musicians jazz |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Painting en plein air, meaning here, was a big part of Impressionism, though Degas wasn't interested outdoors (or outside) |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: In the 1480s, he sketched "The Horse and Rider", seen here Leonardo da Vinci |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): The last work of this recorder of Paris nightlife was "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine" in 1901 (Toulouse-)Lautrec |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | THE ARTIST $1200: Artist Jan Brueghel was the son & the brother of artists with this first name Pieter |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | SINGING THE BLUES $200: The delta blues went electric thanks to artists like Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf moving to this Midwest city Chicago |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BETTER 2-LETTER $1600: It's a lightweight, 2-piece garment for martial artists gi |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | POP QUIZ $400: "Miss Independent" & "Stronger" were hits for this idol Kelly Clarkson |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | NIXON'S ENEMIES LIST $400: One enemy was Hollywood executive Arnold Picker of U.A., this movie studio United Artists |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Thomas Sully painted the portrait of this man that's the basis for the $20 bill Andrew Jackson |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Impressionist painter was the father of Jean, director of "The Rules of the Game" Renoir |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $600: In depicting Native Americans, George Catlin often painted this beast, as in "Assiniboine Indians Pursuing" it "on Snowshoes" a buffalo |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $200: This Presidential Medal of Freedom winner whose work is seen here got his first commission when he was 15 Norman Rockwell |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $400: Still going by the name Ruiz, he entered a painting academy in Madrid in 1897, but the teachers bored him Picasso |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $600: This artist known for self portraits had a child by a young housekeeper & once declared bankruptcy Rembrandt |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $800: During his life he may have sold only one painting , "The Red Vineyard", but in the 20th century his work sold for record amounts van Gogh |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $1000: The last name of this Renaissance master whose work is seen here means "little barrel" (Sandro) Botticelli |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | PLAYING FOR CHANGE $400: This song title from the '80s precedes "25 for Haiti" in a 2010 project featuring 80 recording artists "We Are The World" |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1934 this Spanish surrealist was "expelled" from the movement over his paintings & views Salvador Dalí |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This artist wrote his sister that "putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky" Vincent van Gogh |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Prior to gaining fame in Toledo, this Cretan-born artist studied with Titian in Venice El Greco |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: The lad in this Thomas Gainsborough work is wearing clothes that were popular 140 years before the painting The Blue Boy |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Rembrandt's "Aristotle with a Bust of" this poet was one of his few paintings sent abroad during his lifetime Homer |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper" Pollock |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Dutch master served as chairman of the Delft Artists' Guild from 1662-63 & 1670-71 Jan Vermeer |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Aquarelle is a transparent, rather than opaque, type of this painting, as seen in Paul Klee's work "Quarry" watercolor |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Andre Breton anagrammed this surrealist's name as "Avida Dollars" Salvador Dalí |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This American female Impressionist modeled for many of Degas' works, including "At the Milliner's" (Mary) Cassatt |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MTV VIDEO OF THE YEAR ARTISTS $400: 1988:
"Need You Tonight/Meditate" INXS |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MTV VIDEO OF THE YEAR ARTISTS $800: 2009:
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" Beyoncé |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MTV VIDEO OF THE YEAR ARTISTS $1200: 1984:
"You Might Think" The Cars |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MTV VIDEO OF THE YEAR ARTISTS $1600: 2004:
"Hey Ya!" OutKast |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | MTV VIDEO OF THE YEAR ARTISTS $2000: 1993:
"Jeremy" Pearl Jam |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: The title of this Grant Wood painting refers to the style of the house that's behind the farmer & his daughter American Gothic |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: A 1948 action painting by this American artist is seen here Jackson Pollock |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Louis Maurer was the horse-drawing specialist in the stable of artists of this 19th century printmaking duo Currier & Ives |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: This American Impressionist never married or had children, but in the 1880s she painted many scenes of mothers & children (Mary) Cassatt |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Emmanuel Radnitzky was the original name of this photographer who had a major role in Dadaism & Surrealism Man Ray |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $200: Charlton Heston felt "The Agony and the Ecstasy" as this ceiling painter Michelangelo |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: Alfred Molina was this painter & husband of the title character in "Frida" Diego Rivera |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $600: Both Donald & Kiefer Sutherland have portrayed this artist who journeyed to & from Tahiti (Paul) Gauguin |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: In a 1996 biopic Francoise Gilot manages to survive her affair with this great artist of the 20th century (Anthony Hopkins) (Pablo) Picasso |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1000: Colin Firth painted the title work as this artist in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (Jan) Vermeer |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: In 2010 his Pittsburgh museum welcomed a traveling exhibition, "Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend" Warhol |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: One of Maxfield Parrish's early commissions was to illustrate this "Oz" author's "Mother Goose in Prose" (L.Frank) Baum |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: He was born in 1867 in Idaho, but it would be in South Dakota that he would do a really huge work of art (Gutzon) Borglum |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: He had several one-man shows of his sculptures but he's perhaps best known for his caricatures of Broadway stars Al Hirschfeld |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1970 sculptor Judy Cohen legally changed her last name to this, the city of her birth Chicago |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $200: Hopefully, you won't ram this brand's Ram 1500 into anything Dodge |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $400: This 3-letter auto brand's Sierra pickup has some people saying "hello Denali" GMC |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $600: Drive its Tacoma all the way to Yakima, if you want Toyota |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $800: A new F-150 from this company starts at around $22,000 Ford |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $1000: Do your civic duty & know this company makes the Ridgeline Honda |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | ARTISTS $400: Like Whistler, this "American Gothic" artist painted his own mother, in "Woman With Plants" (Grant) Wood |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | ARTISTS $800: In 1949 Life magazine asked if this drip artist was "the greatest living painter in the United States" Jackson Pollock |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | ARTISTS $1200: He modeled the 2 seated men in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the lone woman at the diner after his wife Jo (Edward) Hopper |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | ARTISTS $1600: This "Whaam!" artist said that "paintings are Rorschach ink blots. They are what you want them to be" Roy Lichtenstein |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | ARTISTS $2000: After visits to this country in the 1850s, Frederic Church painted its Cotopaxi volcano Ecuador |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | LAND OF LANDSCAPES $400: Neptune's Grotto in this classical city attracted many artists Rome |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1501 he was commissioned to make a statue of David for the cathedral of Florence Michelangelo |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Figueres, Spain & St. Petersburg, Florida have museums devoted to this Surrealist (Salvador) Dalí |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sanzio is the last name of this master of the Italian High Renaissance known for his Madonnas Raphael |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1968 Valerie Solanas shot this pop artist; at one point he was declared clinically dead, but he survived (Andy) Warhol |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His "Delft" touch is seen here (Jan) Vermeer |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $400: "Ariel", "Portnoy's Complaint" & this 1969 mob novel were all written partly in Yaddo in Upstate N.Y. The Godfather |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $800: Proceeds from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" helped him start a residency program on Long Island Edward Albee |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $1600: The colony bearing this single name features a barn poet Edna built from a Sears kit Millay |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $2000: Around 1912, 2 painters from the Art Institute of this city founded the Ox-Bow Institute in Saugatuck, Mich. Chicago |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | ARTISTS' RETREATS $2,800 (Daily Double): The patronage of Mabel Dodge Luhan made an artists' magnet of this town 55 miles from Santa Fe Taos, New Mexico |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: Jean Duvet was "the master of" this one-horned creature because of his series of engravings featuring it the unicorn |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Models for this painter & lithographer included dancer La Goulue & singer Aristide Bruant Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $600: In 1874 art critic Louis Leroy coined this term for the movement that included Monet & Pissarro impressionism |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800: Known for his Tahitian paintings, he served as a laborer in Panama in 1887 while France attempted to build a canal Gauguin |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Jacques-Louis David's 1787 painting "The Death of" this Athenian shows him being offered a cup of hemlock Socrates |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | HISTORY $800: The martial artists who fought against Western control of China from 1898 to 1900 were known as these the Boxers |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $200: Begun in 1503, it's been called "the most famous portrait in art history" the Mona Lisa |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Michelangelo's scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling include this pair's "temptation and expulsion" Adam & Eve |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting.) In a painting by Piero della Francesca, as Jesus is being baptized you see a dove descend upon him, representing this part of the trinity the Holy Spirit |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In his "Purgatorio", this poet mentions that painter Giotto di Bondone "is all the rage today" Dante |
| #6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting.) Caravaggio's gypsy woman isn't just holding the man's hand, she's reading his palm, giving the painting this title The Fortune Teller |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | PAINTERS $1600: A dynasty of Flemish artists with this last name included Pieter the Elder, Pieter the Younger & Jan (aka Velvet) Bruegel |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | ART 101 $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew mixes paint.) For centuries, artists have mixed egg yolk with pigment to make this kind of paint tempera |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $800: Architect Arch Genzler's firm designed the new Century City, California headquarters of CAA, this agency Creative Artists |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: In Richard Wilson's 1760s work "Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle", Snowdon is a lofty one of these a mountain |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Henry Fuseli painted this literary character, whose father said, "My story would make your hair stand on end" Hamlet |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1200: This contemporary artist's paintings of California swimming pools include "A Bigger Splash" & "Day Pool with 3 Blues" David Hockney |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: This series of 8 Hogarth paintings, beginning with "The Heir", tells the story of a young man's path of vice & self-destruction A Rake's Progress |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1768 this portraitist was unanimously elected President of the Royal Academy; he was knighted in 1769 Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS $200: Billboard ranked him the No. 1 artist of the '50s, No. 2 for the '60s & No. 11 for the '70s Elvis |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922 Chagall |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS $400: They were tops for the '60s, by a fab margin The Beatles |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS $600: This flamboyant sir was the top artist of the '70s by a single point Elton John |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu" René Magritte |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS $800: The competition was stiff but he "Beat It" to claim top artist of the '80s Michael Jackson |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | BILLBOARD'S TOP ARTISTS $1000: The 1999 Billboard Music Awards were "One Sweet Day" for her; she was named top artist of the '90s Mariah Carey |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union LeRoy Neiman |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His only figure portrait accepted for the salon was of his mistress Camille Doncieux, who in 1870 became his wife Monet |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of this great Florentine sculptor & a teacher of Michelangelo Donatello |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $400: This colorful guy always left me with a great Impression Renoir |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $800: The worldview of this American master came through strongly in works like the one seen here Andrew Wyeth |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $1200: This Italian was a contemporary of the Cubists Modigliani |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Kiss & tell me the name of this Art Nouveau Austrian who painted the work seen here Gustav Klimt |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $2000: In 1923, "Bird" was the word for this innovative sculptor Constantin Brancusi |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $400: X-rays of his "Blue Boy" show that he painted over a dog in the lower right corner Gainsborough |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Frank Stella used ordinary house paint & named a series after this line of paints founded by a man named Benjamin Moore |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: The pre-electric illumination used in his pictures gave Trophime Bigot the title "master" of this type of light candlelight |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: You could say this alliterative American did his own paint by numbers with series like "0 Through 9" Jasper Johns |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Dancer Jane Avril & printer Pere Cotelle are depicted in his 1893 lithograph "L'Estampe Originale" Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $400: In 1891 he held an auction of his paintings to finance his move to Tahiti Paul Gauguin |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $800: Born in 1758, John Hoppner was rumored to be the illegitimate son of this soon-to-be British king George III |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1200: This Fauvist's wife Amelie, who posed for his "Woman with the Hat", ran a Paris hat shop to earn money for the family Henri Matisse |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1600: This Cretan's 1582 work "Martyrdom of St. Maurice" was his last commission from Spain's King Philip II El Greco |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $2000: The cadaver in his "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" was that of Aris Kindt, an executed robber Rembrandt |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $400: This saint wields a candy cane-like lance in Il Sodoma's painting of him slaying a dragon St. George |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $1200: This Jewish woman's face is grimly composed in Gentileschi's painting of her slaying Holofernes Judith |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $1600: In a painting by John William Waterhouse, this femme fatale offers a cup to Ulysses Circe |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): He's been thrown from his horse and struck blind in Parmigianino's painting of "The Conversion of" this man Saul (of Tarsus) (better known as St. Paul) |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Niccolo Dell"abbate painted "The Death of Eurydice", the wife of this guy Orpheus |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Roy Lichtenstein perfected his technique for simulating benday dots to mimic the artwork found in these "strips" comic strips |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Before seascapes, he did war paintings, like "Prisoners from the Front", seen here Winslow Homer |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" is in the Capitol Rotunda & on the back of this piece of currency the $2 bill |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: "Thanksgiving Turkey" & "The Old Oaken Bucket" are paintings by her Grandma Moses |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Longtime house speaker Sam Rayburn owned "The Scalp", a statue by this Western artist Remington |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Marcel Duchamp's "L.H.O.O.Q." put a mustache & goatee on a postcard reproduction of this masterpiece the Mona Lisa |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Charles Despiau is best known for these head-&-shoulders sculpted portraits busts |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: In art class, "A" is for this style of art that doesn't represent objects abstract |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest collection of this post-impressionist's work is at the Amsterdam museum named for him Vincent van Gogh |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: For this revolutionary image, Archibald Willard originally showed the 3 musicians in a July 4th parade The Spirit of '76 |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In 1905, before he took up Cubism, this Spaniard painted his friend Gertrude Stein, who wore her favorite brown velvet coat Picasso |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Augustus John, known for his portrait of this Welsh poet, introduced the poet to his future wife Caitlin Dylan Thomas |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: This British prime minister hated Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of him so much that his wife destroyed it Churchill |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Around 1927 this American known for his mobiles created a portrait of Josephine Baker out of wire (Alexander) Calder |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: In 1797 Goya painted this duchess, his mistress, pointing to the words "solo Goya", or "Goya alone" the Duchess of Alba |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $400: In 1936 he showed up for a Surrealist exhibition dressed in a diving suit (Salvador) Dali |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1200: This Belgian's "Mysteries Of The Horizon" shows 3 men in bowler hats; a sliver of moon hangs above each of them Magritte |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1600: In 1958 he tripled up on his patriotic painting of "Three Flags" (Jasper) Johns |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $2000: "Sky Blue", "Blue Mountain" & "The Blue Rider" are all paintings by this Russian abstract artist Kandinsky |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2006 "Roots", a 1943 painting by her, sold for $5.6 million, then the record for a Latin American work Frida Kahlo |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $400: Even while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he still signed his letters "Sculptor in Rome" Michelangelo |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $800: While living in Milan, he created a forced-air central heating system for a castle da Vinci |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $1200: This "Younger" German artist's "Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer" featured the Mayor of Basel & his family Hans Holbein |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $1600: This Flemish artist's brother Hubert may have contributed to the 12 panels of the "Ghent Altarpiece" Jan Van Eyck |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $2000: At age 10 artist Paolo Uccello assisted this sculptor on his bronze doors of the Florentine Baptistry Lorenzo Ghiberti |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Along with Picasso & Braque, Juan Gris was a leading member of this movement Cubism |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Sculptures of his at the Musee d'Orsay include "Balzac" & "L'hiver" Rodin |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Frida Kahlo married him in 1929; they divorced in 1939 & remarried in 1940 Diego Rivera |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: In 1824 this British landscape painter's "The Hay Wain" received a gold medal at the Paris Salon John Constable |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1,200 (Daily Double): This "Joy of Life" Fauvist studied law, but turned to painting when recuperating from an operation (Good choice!) Henri Matisse |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | PATRON $1600: Isabella Stewart Gardner was a patron of artists like John Singer Sargent & an ardent fan of this baseball team the Boston Red Sox |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $400: His 1888 work "The Sower" is in the collection of the Amsterdam museum named for him van Gogh |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Italian for "fresh", this type of wall painting has paint fusing with plaster fresco |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: "The Poet" was an earlier title for this French sculptor's "The Thinker" Rodin |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $1,800 (Daily Double): There's no wry smile on this Italian's "Ginevra de'Benci", which you can see right here in the U.S. of A. da Vinci |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Renoir & Monet were part of this art movement that tried to capture what the eye sees at a particular moment Impressionism |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $400: This Saturday Evening Post artist also did illustrations for editions of "Tom Sawyer" & "Huckleberry Finn" (Norman) Rockwell |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $800: This artist's 1890s journal "Noa Noa", or "Fragrance", was a study of Tahitian culture & its myths Gauguin |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $1200: Picasso's 1907 work "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" was inspired by this artist's series of nudes called "Bathers" Paul Cézanne |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $1600: This father of Andrew Wyeth once illustrated maps for the National Geographic Society N.C. Wyeth |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS $2000: In "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", this macabre American artist knocked off 26 kids in picturesque ways Edward Gorey |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $400: The Nazarenes of 19th c. Germany wore biblical clothes & hairstyles & aimed to revive this wall painting method fresco |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In the language of its creator, this sculpture is "Le Penseur" The Thinker |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 2006 film Stellan Skarsgard played this Spanish painter, with Randy Quaid as King Carlos IV Goya |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: "Madonna of the Long Neck" was painted in 1534 but could have been the title for this Italian's works of the 19-teens Modigliani |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, was a patron of this mid-17th century view painter Canaletto |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | THE OFFICE GAMES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits around shooting rubber bands at stacked plastic cups with Jimmy & Kelly.) Even with a rubber band, this 4-letter term means to pull back the string to bend the bow--yes!--a word used by archers & artists draw |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $1000: nytimes.com has up-to-date info on this NYC museum of American art, like its exhibition on "artists making photographs" the Whitney |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" artist painted several portraits of Impressionist Berthe Morisot, his sister-in-law Manet |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His 1911 painting "I and the Village" uses the simple shapes of Russian folk art Chagall |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: As a child, this Florentine fresco painter was placed in the care of a monastery; he took his vows in 1421 Fra Filippo Lippi |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): When he first came to Hoboken from Holland, this abstract Expressionist, who died at 93, painted houses Willem de Kooning |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Capturing the frothy essence of the Rococo style, "The Swing" by this painter is seen here Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $400: Renaissance artist:
Rembrandt,
Botticelli or
Van Gogh Botticelli |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $800: Cubist:
Picasso,
Pollock or
Pellegrini Picasso |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $1200: Surrealist:
Dali,
Delacroix or
Van Dyck Dali |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $1600: Pop artist:
Degas,
Munch or
Lichtenstein Lichtenstein |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $2000: Post-impressionist:
Goya,
Gauguin or
Gainsborough Gauguin |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | KIDS DON'T REALIZE $400: Kids don't realize the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are each named for famous men in this occupation artists (or painters) |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | ARTY FACTS $2000: This -ism used for the work of mid-16th c. artists like Pontormo & Tintoretto was originally derogatory mannerism |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | A DAY AT THE MUSEUM $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Bilbao, Spain.) Bilbao is in the area named for this Pyrenees people; take a look at an example of the museum's works by Eduardo Chillida, one of this peoples' finest artists the Basques |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Edgar Leeteg, who painted Tahitian women on velvet, is considered the American equivalent of this French artist (Paul) Gauguin |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: He painted portraits of the first 6 U.S. presidents, but those of Washington are his best known (Gilbert) Stuart |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: She spent the summer of 1929 in New Mexico & moved there permanently after the death of her husband in 1946 (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: Works by this "Painter of Light" include "Valley of Peace" & "Streams of Living Water" (Thomas) Kinkade |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $3,800 (Daily Double): Jacob Lawrence achieved fame with his "Toussaint L'ouverture Series" depicting the slave rebellion here Haiti |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.) The Norman army has archers, giving it the advantage in this battle that spanned 8 hours on Oct. 14, 1066; the artists conveyed the gathering momentum of the battle Hastings |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | NAME THAT CENTURY $800: Artists Nathaniel Currier & James Ives team up & take the world by snow storm the 19th century |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $400: To honor peace, Jean Verame painted some 4 mi. of Sinai Desert boulders blue; this intl. org. donated the paint the United Nations |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $800: Damien Hirst decorated a cast of a skull with 8,601 of these gems & sold the darn thing for $100 million diamonds |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $1200: Pietro Torrigiano is remembered not so much for his art as for breaking this fellow Florentine sculptor's nose Michelangelo |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $1600: Jean-Paul Sartre was so moved by this artist's mobiles that he called them "the perceptible symbol of nature" (Alexander) Calder |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $2000: Last name of the artistic American siblings Rembrandt & Raphaelle; it has a nice "ring" to it Peale |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $200: In 1891 he created his first of more than 30 posters, "Moulin Rouge--La Goulue" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $400: His 1892 work "Manao Tupapau" shows a superstitious Tahitian girl who is terrified of a dead spirit Gauguin |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $600: In 1838 Eugene Delacroix painted separate portraits of Chopin & this woman, Chopin's lover George Sand |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $800: From 1948 to 1951, this Fauvist designed & decorated the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France Henri Matisse |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | FRENCH ARTISTS $1000: He was known for his readymades such as "L.H.O.O.Q.", a copy of the "Mona Lisa" with a penciled-in mustache & beard (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: nytimes.com says the Belle Epoque architecture & late-night cafes of this capital lure expat artists & tango lovers Buenos Aires |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "C"LASSICAL MUSICIANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Steinway & Sons in New York.) Steinway unveiled its 500,000th piano in a 1988 gala at Carnegie Hall featuring Steinway artists like this American pianist who has his own Fort Worth piano competition Van Cliburn |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | THE PEARL $3,000 (Daily Double): This adjective for pearls of irregular shape also describes artists such as Hyacinthe Rigaud baroque |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Add 1 letter to "Titan" to get this Renaissance titan known for his nudes Titian |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $800: This Leonardo fresco painted in a Milan convent dining hall began crumbling & fading during the artist's lifetime The Last Supper |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: The first stone for this Roman basilica was laid in 1506, following the plan of Italian architect Donato Bramante St. Peter's |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lorenzo Ghiberti is best known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city Florence |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco is better known by this name found in the title of Robert Browning's poem about him Andrea del Sarto |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: The aptly named Terry Frost created a painting called this season of the year "1956, Yorkshire" Winter |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: John Hoppner, a favorite royal portrait artist of the late 1700s, was rumored to be an illegitimate son of this king George III |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: You can barely make out the elephants in J.M.W. Turner's painting of this man "Crossing the Alps" Hannibal |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: A 1790s engraving by Robert Dodd shows this "bountiful" captain & some of his officers being set adrift Captain Bligh |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: This contemporary Brit has long been in the swim with paintings such as "Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool" (David) Hockney |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | ART $1600: Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the works of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin Postimpressionist |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Among his many sculptures are "The Cowboy" & "Coming Through the Rye" Remington |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: Between 1971 & 1985 he depicted his neighbor Helga in over 240 of his works (Andrew) Wyeth |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He modeled the male diners in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the female diner after his wife Jo (Edward) Hopper |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The feminist artist Judy Cohen goes by this last name, the city of her birth Chicago |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: This celebrated American photographer exhibited at the first Surrealist exhibition of 1925 Man Ray |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | NEW MEDIA $1600: On your cell phone screen, you can shrink down to size artists like Big Pun & this Latino rapper-- they're "Twinz" Fat Joe |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | JAPANESE CULTURE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Tokyo, Japan.) In addition to artists & dancers, the government of Japan has designated swordsmiths & sword polishers living national these, an honor introduced in 1955 treasures |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | EUROPEAN ARTS AND ARTISTS $400: Robert Delaunay introduced vivid colors to this "geometric" movement, beginning a trend called Orphism cubism |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | EUROPEAN ARTS AND ARTISTS $800: His "Luncheon on the Grass" caused a major scandal at the Salon des Refuses Manet |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | EUROPEAN ARTS AND ARTISTS $1200: In the 1500s Isaac Oliver found fame painting this kind of portrait named for its tiny size miniature |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | EUROPEAN ARTS AND ARTISTS $1600: Dutch painter Dirk Hals was the younger brother of this man who painted "The Witch of Haarlem" Frans |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | EUROPEAN ARTS AND ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): This Spaniard's 1650 painting of Pope Innocent X may be his greatest single portrait [Diego] Velázquez |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $400: While living abroad in Chelsea, Whistler painted a series of scenes set along this river the Thames |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In 2003 the gallery in Vegas' Bellagio featured a show of this pop artist's works with an audio narration by Liza (Andy) Warhol |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Henriette, eldest child of this illustrator, was a portrait artist when brother Andrew was just beginning to draw N.C. Wyeth |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: This American impressionist was beloved for her affectionate maternal paintings as seen here (Mary) Cassatt |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Some of his pen-&-ink drawings of his famous "girl" were modeled on his wife, a sister of Lady Astor Charles Dana Gibson |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | LET'S "ROCK"! $600: Early one-word hybrid rock & roll style exemplified by artists like Gene Vincent & Carl Perkins rockabilly |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: His sculpture of Victor Hugo got a "miserable" reaction; later it was placed on the avenue named for Hugo Rodin |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Monet & this fellow Impressionist often painted the same scene, like Monet's wife & son in 1874 Auguste Renoir |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Maurice Utrillo often painted scenes of this area of Paris & its best-known landmark, Sacre Coeur Montmartre |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: This Dadaist exhibited ready-mades like "Fountain", a urinal that he signed R. Mutt Duchamp |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: In 1940 this Dutch abstract artist moved to NYC, which influenced his masterpiece "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" Piet Mondrian |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches some trapeze artists rehearse at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) At the start of the trick, the trapeze artist has maximized her P.E., this; at the moment of the catch, she wants to maximize it again so she's not moving potential energy |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $800: Artists become eligible this long after their first release; The Beach Boys went in in 1988, Springsteen in '99 25 years |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | MOVIE MUSIC $800: Caetano Veloso & Mr. Loco are among artists on the soundtrack of this Jack Black wrestling movie Nacho Libre |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Helen Frankenthaler's "soak and stain" technique was inspired by this artist's drip paintings (Jackson) Pollock |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Picasso painted this work as a protest against the bombing of a town in the Spanish Civil War Guernica |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: One of his last paintings before his 1903 death in the South Pacific was a landscape of Brittany in winter Gauguin |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: In her 1949 painting "Diego and I", Diego Rivera is depicted on her forehead Frida Kahlo |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This 19th century inventor's notable portraits included those of the Marquis de Lafayette & William Cullen Bryant Samuel Morse |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | THE BROWNINGS $1200: 2 of Robert's poems, "Fra Lippo Lippi" & "Andrea del Sarto" were about Renaissance men who had this occupation artists |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | A MAKEUP EXAM $2000: Some makeup shades come in one of these containers named for a board on which artists mix paints palette |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | ART HERSTORY $2000: Paintings by Guillemine Benoist & other female artists were misidentified as by this French male neoclassicist (Jacques-Louis) David |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | FRENCH COMPOSERS $800: His greatest orchestral work, "La Mer", was inspired by artists Claude Monet & J.M.W. Turner Debussy |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | HOW GREAT THOU ART $2000: Works like the 1498 self-portrait seen here made him one of the most influential artists of the Reformation (Albrecht) Dürer |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $400: Soon after arriving in Tahiti in 1891, he took a native girl named Tehura as his wife Gauguin |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $800: This Norwegian's first masterpiece, "The Sick Child", recalled the death of his sister Sophie due to tuberculosis (Edward) Munch |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1200: This "Second Of May" artist lived in a villa outside Madrid called "The Deaf Man's House" Goya |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1600: His "School of Athens" covers one wall of the Stanza Della Segnatura, a room in the pope's private quarters Raphael |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $2000: Members of this Flemish family of artists were nicknamed "Peasant", "Velvet", & "Hell" the Bruegels |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ARTY FACTS $400: First names of famous artists Holbein & Hals; they'll "pump you up!" Hans & Franz |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS $400: Spanish superstar surprises some; sample sculpture Pablo Picasso |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS $800: Bearded British ruler reveres German genius Hans Holbein |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS $1200: Georgia guy, flag-fashioning pop painter Jasper Johns |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS $1600: Flamboyant Flemish fixture fond of fleshy females, first & following names Peter Paul Rubens |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS $2000: Cunning canine cameraman caught cuddling William Wegman |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | A FEW CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 1916 this movement was founded by a group of artists & poets in Zurich; come to ... Dada |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Sir Edwin Landseer was lionized for the lions he created for Nelson's Column in this square Trafalgar |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $800: Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown Venice |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: This beautiful painting by Gustav Klimt has the same name as a famous sculpture by Rodin The Kiss |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is famed for his busts of Montesquieu, Mme. de Pompadour & this "Candide" author Voltaire |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: The Rokeby Venus is the only surviving example of a female nude by this 17th century Spanish portrait artist Velázquez |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | "BELL"s ARE RINGING $2000: Last name of Venetian artists Jacopo, Gentile & Giovanni Bellini |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $400: During his Rose Period, he often painted Harlequins & Saltimbanques Picasso |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $800: The play "Lobster Alice" imagines this surrealist showing up at Disney to work on an animated film (Salvador) Dali |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $1600: Henry VIII sent him to paint portraits of prospective brides; only 2 of the paintings survive Hans Holbein |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $2000: This Spaniard's "Las Meninas" shows the Infanta Margareta Teresa with her retinue of ladies & dwarfs Velázquez |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARTISTS $2,100 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.) The Hemitage's only work by this Englishman is his "Portrait of a Lady in Blue"; he really liked the color blue Gainsborough |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: This artist's museum sells a full-size reproduction of his bronze "Coming Through the Rye" for a mere $5000 (Frederic) Remington |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: In 2006 the New Mexico museum devoted to her acquired 4 of her nude self-portraits Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: This American expatriate was known for painting children, such as the ones seen here Mary Cassatt |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): Born one year before the Civil War began, she died 101 years later during John F. Kennedy's administration Grandma Moses |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: This Missouri artist painted the mural at the Truman Library, but President Truman applied some extra touches himself (Thomas Hart) Benton |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $200: He formed United Artists with Griffith, Pickford & Fairbanks & in 1915 lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest Charles Chaplin |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Franz Post, the first European to paint landscapes in the New World, did the view seen here of a mill for this crop in Brazil sugar |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In the early 1400s Robert Campin & Jan Van Eyck helped start the "Northern" one of these movements Renaissance |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: One of the 2 great British landscape masters born 14 months apart in 1775 & '76 (1 of) Constable & Turner |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lee Krasner, whose work is seen here, married this man in 1945 & they influenced each other's art Jackson Pollock |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Seen here is a late work by this artist who was pals with the Impressionists but didn't exhibit with them (Edouard) Manet |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Hyphenated last name of sculptor Raymond, the brother of artists Marcel Duchamp & Jacques Villon Duchamp-Villon |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1899 he painted "Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms" Gauguin |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A famous c. 1595 landscape by El Greco shows a "View of" this Spanish city Toledo |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $600: A restaurant on New York's Greenwich Avenue inspired this 1942 Edward Hopper painting the Nighthawks |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Unveiled in 1967, his sculpture seen here was a gift to the people of Chicago Pablo Picasso |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: He called his abstract style in paintings like "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" Neoplasticism (Piet) Mondrian |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $400: 1965:
Charlton Heston Michelangelo |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $800: 1956:
Kirk Douglas Vincent van Gogh |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $1200: 2001:
John Leguizamo (in a musical) Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $1600: 2000:
Ed Harris Jackson Pollock |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $2000: 1996:
Anthony Hopkins Picasso |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Seen here are these two artists who were married in 1929 in Coyocan Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Jonathan Buttall is the young man in this "colorful" work by Thomas Gainsborough The Blue Boy |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The pop art stylings of this artist are exemplified by his "Nurse", seen here Lichtenstein |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Impressionism got its name thanks to his painting "Impression: Sunrise" (Claude) Monet |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: A reddish-brown color is named for this Venetian artist who used the color frequently in his paintings Titian |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in front of a projection screen.) Correggio got an almost religious ecstasy into his mythological paintings, such as this Roman god & Io Jupiter |
| #4876, aired 2005-11-21 | WELCOME TO WYOMING $2000: Wyoming's scenery has inspired many artists, so it's fitting that the state flower is the "Indian" this paintbrush |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $400: This artist adored Camembert cheese because it could assume the shape of the limp watches he was noted for painting Salvador Dalí |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $800: His statue of "Bacchus" led to a commission to create the famous "Pieta" now in St. Peter's Basilica Michelangelo |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Picasso depicted this bird on his posters promoting world peace, & his daughter Paloma is named for it a dove |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: El Greco probably received his early training painting icons on this, his native island Crete |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Manhattan's Frick collection is home to a 1644 portrait of King Philip IV by this great Spanish artist Velazquez |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $400: Many of his works are also known by their Tahitian names, such as "Ia Orana Maria" & "Ta Matete" Gauguin |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $800: This 17th-century Flemish artist brought women to vivid life in paintings like the one seen here Rubens |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1909 still life he included a section of his earlier painting "La Danse" (Henri) Matisse |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $1200: This painter's riffs on the comics include "Look, Mickey!", in which Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck are fishing (Roy) Lichtenstein |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $1600: His 1814 work "Tres de Mayo", or "The Third of May", depicts a French firing squad shooting Spanish citizens in Madrid Goya |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Fittingly, Francois Boucher painted "The Toilet of" this Roman goddess for Madame de Pompadour Venus |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Donatello was born in this city, where he assisted Ghiberti in finishing the bronze doors of the baptistery Florence |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Actress Ellen Andre posed as the dejected woman for his famous 1876 painting "The Absinthe Drinkers" (Edgar) Degas |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Antonic Canova created 2 gigantic nude statues of this emperor (oddly, one was given to the Duke of Wellington) Napoleon |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Known for his religious art, Sebastien Bourdon served as court painter to this queen of Sweden in the 1650s Christina |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | ART BIENNIALS $400: This country's first "Documenta" highlighted the artists of the "Degenerate Art" propaganda exhibit of 1937 Germany |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | ART & ARTISTS $400: During his career he produced about 240 paintings & drawings of the same woman--Helga Testorf Andrew Wyeth |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | ART & ARTISTS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slide of a painting.) Arcimboldo portraits, using non-human elements, anticipate by 350 years this movement, founded in the 1920s Surrealism |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This New England painter once said, "Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy" (Winslow) Homer |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slide of a painting.) Géricault was just 21 in 1812 when he painted our next work, which displays the turbulence of this movement Romanticism |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: In 1943 Jackson Pollock had his first solo exhibit at "Art of this Century", this woman's NYC gallery Peggy Guggenheim |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | THE BARNES COLLECTION $1200: (Alex points out sculptures and then a painting in the Barnes Collection.) Early on, Dr. Barnes recognized the influence of African art on European artists, like this Italian whose work is featured here Modigliani |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | A, B, C $2000: If you're in "A&R" for a record company, you know it stands for these "and Repertoire" Artists |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $400: Good golly! The only artist to write his own tribute was this one, No. 8, whose first hit came in 1956 Little Richard |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $800: Bono wrote of him, No. 3 after The Beatles & Dylan, that he "ate America before America ate him" Elvis Presley |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $1200: No. 11, he "came from the poverty & injustice of Jamaica, & that manifested itself in his rebel sound" Bob Marley |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $1600: Someone "managed to combine R.E.M. & Metallica", wrote Vernon Reid after he heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by this band, No. 27 Nirvana |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ROLLING STONE'S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $2000: "Without" No. 46, this Texan, "there would be no Melissa Etheridge... no Chrissie Hynde, no Gwen Stefani" Janis Joplin |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | ART SCHOOL $200: The most common one used by artists is probably the X-Acto a knife |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | BILLIE HOLIDAY $800: In 1939 "Lady Day" began a long engagement at Cafe Society, a club in this NYC haven for poets & artists Greenwich Village |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $200: The avant-garde author of "Three Lives", her home was a salon for emerging artists such as Picasso & Braque (Gertrude) Stein |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This Dutch painter, a member of the Delft Guild, had a total output of only about 40 pictures (one with a pearl) (Jan) Vermeer |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Englishman described his work as "modern moral subjects... similar to representations on the stage" (William) Hogarth |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Gericault's most famous work, "The Raft of" this ship, was based on a historic event & caused a political scandal the Medusa |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His "Jolly Toper" of the 1600s is seen here Franz Hals |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Minerva, Venus & Juno are the 3 being "judged" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting The Judgment of Paris |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This 4th century B.C. conqueror was said to let no one but the sculptor Lysippus do his portrait Alexander (the Great) |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: 6-letter title of the John Singer Sargent WWI painting seen here in detail; it's what happened to the men (they were) "Gassed" |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This single-named Renaissance artist who died in 1520 was regarded in the 19th century as the greatest painter ever Raphael |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: For 37 years, 1623 to 1660, he painted Philip IV of Spain & his family, court & jesters (Diego) Velázquez |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Elaine de Kooning, Willem's painter wife, wrote "The Spirit of" this 2-word art movement of the 1940s & '50s Abstract Expressionism |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | PUPPETRY $1600: A foundation named for this Muppet creator supports the work of puppet artists Jim Henson |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | ART $400: As a youngster, Claude Monet did these exaggerated portraits popular with today's street artists caricatures |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: He was nearly blind when he painted his series of "Water Lilies" (Claude) Monet |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Seen here, he's the most famous occupant at California's Huntington Library "The Blue Boy" |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Marcel Duchamp's most famous painting is "Nude Descending" this A Staircase |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: His "Vampire" painting from 1893 just might make you "Scream" Edvard Munch |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1,800 (Daily Double): Four of her works, including the one seen here, were recently featured on U.S. stamps Mary Cassatt |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | TERM COINERS $800: Louis Vauxelles & Louis Leroy, who coined the terms Cubism & Impressionism, weren't artists, they were these critics |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: 26-year-old Michelangelo used a nearly 40-year-old marble block for his sculpture of this Biblical man David |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Salvador Dali lectured in a diving suit at a famous exhibition of this movement in 1936 Surrealism |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture is seen here & at the Louvre Nike |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: Born in 1898 & trained as an engineer, he turned to art in his 20s & began making stabiles & mobiles Alexander Calder |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Dots of color are applied on the canvas so that they fuse at a distance in the viewer's eye in this technique Pointillism |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | RHYTHM & BOOZE $400: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists "Tequila" |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OVERVIEW $2000: It's the historic artists' area seen here; note the canals Venice (California) |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | ITALIAN ART $400: This "David" sculptor was the only living artist in Vasari's 1550 "Lives of the Artists" Michelangelo |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | "R"T $600: Fragonard, painter of "The Swing", is considered one of the greatest artists of this ornate style Rococo |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | ARTISTS $200: This Spanish surrealist once broke the window of a 5th Avenue gallery after it had rearranged a display of his art Salvador Dali |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | ARTISTS $400: While living in Parma, Italy, this American impressionist began painting babies, later her trademark Mary Cassatt |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | ARTISTS $600: His painting "View of Toledo" is also called "Toledo in a Storm" El Greco |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer & sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts Frida Kahlo |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | ARTISTS $1000: A Lord Byron poem inspired this great French Romantic painter's "The Death of Sardanapalus" Eugene Delacroix |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | ART & ARTISTS $400: The Dada art movement originated at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 in this largest Swiss city Zurich |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Florentine's 1483 "Madonna of the Rocks" is his earliest major work that survives in complete form da Vinci |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1934 this midwestern regionalist became an assistant professor of fine arts at the University of Iowa Grant Wood |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: As a boy, Titian was sent to this city to study under the masters; he spent most of the rest of his life there Venice |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: This Dutch artist's "Composition B With Red, 1935", scorned by critics in 1936, was sold in 1999 for about $4.5 million Piet Mondrian |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ARTISTS' BIRTHPLACES $200: Frida Kahlo, born to a Spanish-Native American mother & a Jewish father, hailed from this country Mexico |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ARTISTS' BIRTHPLACES $400: In 1863 Edvard Munch was born in Loten, near what is now this capital Oslo |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ARTISTS' BIRTHPLACES $800: He was born Pablo Ruiz in Malaga, Spain in 1881 Picasso |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ARTISTS' BIRTHPLACES $1,000 (Daily Double): This city was the birthplace of the Renaissance & of Renaissance painter Botticelli Florence |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ARTISTS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: Perhaps this will "jar" your memory: Rembrandt was born in this Dutch city in 1606 Leyden |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1888 this painter suffered one of his first attacks of madness, while Paul Gauguin was visiting him Vincent Van Gogh |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" featured Thomas Carlyle, not his mother James McNeill Whistler |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | B____G $800: Whitney & Yanni are among the artists on this label BMG |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Expressionist movements that started in this country included "The Bridge" & "The Blue Rider" Germany |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at Rembrandt's house in Amsterdam) Rembrandt did much of his work in this studio, including this philosopher "Contemplating the Bust of Homer" Aristotle |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: French Fauvist famous for his 1905 "Woman with a Hat" & a mural in a Pennsylvania museum Henri Matisse |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: "Eat", an early film by this pop artist, showed fellow artist Robert Indiana eating a mushroom Andy Warhol |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: This "American Gothic" painter produced a series of drawings for Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" Grant Wood |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1200: He's the artist who painted the portrait (George Washington) seen here Gilbert Stuart |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: His "Whaam!" is part of the collection at the Tate Gallery in London Roy Lichtenstein |
| #4352, aired 2003-07-01 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: Done in monochrome, "White Flag" from 1955 is the largest of his flag paintings Jasper Johns |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
(1907) Pablo Picasso |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $800: "Irises"
(1889) Vincent Van Gogh |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $1200: "St. Bartholomew", seen here
(1661) Rembrandt |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $1600: "The Blue Boy"
(1770) Thomas Gainsborough |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"
(1800) Jacques-Louis David |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | RIBBONS $400: This symbol was created in 1991 by the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in New York red ribbon |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 apostles for Florence's cathedral Michelangelo |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: This British prime minister must have hated his 1954 birthday portrait by Graham Sutherland; his wife destroyed it Winston Churchill |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: English portraitist Thomas Hudson was noted for painting this "Messiah" composer George F. Handel |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: "J'accuse" Edouard Manet of painting the portrait of this French novelist, seen here Emile Zola |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: French songstress Yvette Guilbert hated this cabaret habitue's depictions of her & called him "Little Monster" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In this Belgian surrealist's 1928 work "Threatening Weather", the clouds have the shapes of a tuba, a chair & a torso Rene Magritte |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His several "At the Circus" drawings from 1898 include "The Tandem", "Acrobats" & "Rehearsing" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1879 she became the first & only American woman to exhibit with the Impressionists Mary Cassatt |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands at the front of Rembrandt's home in Amsterdam.) Sadly, 3 years after Rembrandt moved into this house, this wife & portrait subject passed away Saskia |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: The statue here shows this priest killed by sea serpents when he gave warnings about the Trojan Horse Laocoon |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | MY SON, THE PAINTER $2000: 5 of this American artist's 17 children, including Raphaelle & Rembrandt, became artists Charles Willson Peale |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Upon completing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1512, he wrote to his father, "The pope is well satisfied" Michelangelo |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This pop artist's studio was known as "The Factory" Andy Warhol |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1963 this "Christina's World" artist became the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom Andrew Wyeth |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: He painted "Tahitian Women" shortly after arriving on that island in 1891 Paul Gauguin |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: On September 29, 1910, this painter known for his seascapes died in his studio in Prouts Neck, Maine Winslow Homer |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This artist was about 25 when he painted the 1905 self-portrait seen here Picasso |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $800: He wrote to his brother Theo, "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day" van Gogh |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: This artist captured the impression of a warm summer day in the meadow seen here Renoir |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: In 2002 this Flemish painter's "Massacre of the Innocents" sold for over $76 million, a record for an Old Master Rubens |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: It's the title of Salvador Dali's 1931 painting of limp watches The Persistence of Memory |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Tintoretto was in his 70s when he began painting his massive "Paradise" canvas for the doge's palace in this city Venice |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco.) Here at the Palace Hotel you'll find Maxfield Parrish's famous mural depicting this legendary character the Pied Piper |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: He lived for awhile at the Rue des Moulins bordello, & painted its ladies of the evening in their parlor Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: A pink line that resembles a scarf floats atop the abstract Robert Natkin painting named for this dancer Isadora Duncan |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: Carlo Saraceni depicted this mythological woman seen here straining at her chains Andromeda |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ARTISTS IN FRANCE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris) This great Spanish artist was one of the most famous regulars at Les Deux Magots; some say he created Cubism here Pablo Picasso |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ARTISTS IN FRANCE $800: In 1909 one of his nude statues of Victor Hugo was installed at the Gallery of the Palais-Royal Auguste Rodin |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ARTISTS IN FRANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Visitors walk through an underground passage to get to this artist's beloved water garden at Giverny Claude Monet |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ARTISTS IN FRANCE $1600: He was living in Auvers-sur-Oise when, despairing & lonely, he shot himself in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: She began painting in 1938 at age 78; a year later her landscapes were exhibited at NYC's Museum of Modern Art Grandma Moses |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $800: The overweight Marie de Medici hired this artist to do a cycle of paintings on her Peter Paul Rubens |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of this artist's most famous landscapes, "View of Delft" & "Street in Delft", are scenes from his hometown Jan Vermeer |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Amsterdam at Rembrandt's house.) Under a lean-to in this courtyard, Rembrandt painted 1642's "Sortie of a Company of Captain Banning Cocq", also known as this The Night Watch |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: This Venetian put St. Peter, not Mary & Jesus, at the center of his "Madonna of the Pesaro Family" Titian |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Around 1850, you could find Eugene Delacroix painting the ceiling of this French museum's Salon d'Apollon the Louvre |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: George Romney painted many portraits of Lady Hamilton dressed as this militant 15th century saint Joan of Arc |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather look at his ballerinas than the "Two Laundresses" he drew in the 1880s Edgar Degas |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: His pictures of Tahitian women with spirits include "Manao Tupapau (The Specter Watches Over Her)" Paul Gauguin |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1,200 (Daily Double): This Spaniard painted some dreary-looking clowns during his Blue & Rose Periods in the early 1900s Pablo Picasso |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Jean Duvet created a series of engravings depicting the hunting of this 1-horned mythical beast unicorn |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800: Francois Lemoyne painted the Hercules ceiling at this French palace & voila! became premier peintre du roi Versailles |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1600: In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush "Women of" this Algerian city "in Their Apartment" Algiers |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Talent ran in the family: this first woman to join the Impressionists was a granddaughter of the Rococo painter Fragonard Berthe Morisot |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | ANGEL $400: Adapting pagan images, artists began putting pairs of these on angels to distinguish them from humans wings |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $400: Georges Braque said that he & this Cubist were like climbers roped together, each pulling the other up Picasso |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $800: In 1963 he began a series inspired by girls' romance comics that included the painting seen here Lichtenstein |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1200: He conveyed the loneliness of life in the big city in paintings like "Chop Suey" & "Nighthawks" (Edward) Hopper |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1600: Born in the Jewish village of Vitebsk in 1887, this painter lived till the ripe old age of 97 Chagall |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $2000: Jackson Pollock & this Rotterdam-born artist created American abstract expressionism de Kooning |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | KEEP YOUR PANTHEON $800: Associated with artists & craftsmen, Ptah was a creator god of these ancient people Egyptians |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | UP WORDS $1200: A type of apartment often used by artists, or the backward slant on a golf club's face Loft |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | TAKE IT "EZ" $400: They're the type of artists seen here trapeze |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: 2001: Various artists with this soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400: 1962:
"Group of Five Campbell's Soup Cans" (Andy) Warhol |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $800: 1891:
"Street in Tahiti" (Paul) Gauguin |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $1200: 1948:
"Christina's World" Andrew Wyeth |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $1600: 1931:
"The Persistence of Memory" Dali |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $2000: 1911:
"I and the Village" Marc Chagall |
| #4090, aired 2002-05-17 | EUROPEAN ART $1200: A main cause of the early 20th c. Dadaist movement was artists being bummed out about this 4-year-long event World War I |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $200: "Dying Centaur" artist Antoine Bourdelle spent years as chief assistant to this more famous French sculptor Rodin |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This British abstract sculptor of "Madonna and Child" drew Londoners in the Underground during the blitz Henry Moore |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He was in his prime--or should we say his "Primavera"--when he painted "Fortitude" in 1470 Botticelli |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This "Nude Descending a Staircase" artist also painted "The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes" (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This Romanian known for his "Endless Column" also sculpted the scandalous "Princess X" Brancusi |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | ART $1200: Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the work of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin post-impressionist |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | ORDINARY "WORLD" $1000: The "U.S.A." in "U.S.A. for Africa" stood for "United Support of Artists" when they recorded this '85 No. 1 Hit "We Are the World" |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $400: In the 1920s African American artists & writers had a "Renaissance" in this New York City neighborhood Harlem |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | "P"OTPOURRI $800: Seen here, she co-founded the United Artists film company Mary Pickford |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: Read all about it. His magazine cover "Little Spooners," or "Sunset,"
seen here, appeared in 1926 Norman Rockwell |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: Between 1971 & 1985 he depicted his neighbor Helga in over 240 of his works Andrew Wyeth |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He modeled the male diners in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the female diner after his wife Jo (Edward) Hopper |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $2000: America's most collected
living artist, he's the painter of light whose work is seen here Thomas Kinkade |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The feminist artist born Judy Cohen in 1939 goes by this last name, the city of her birth Judy Chicago |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Andrea Solari dished up the painting of this saint seen here John the Baptist |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $800: Andrea D'Agnolo di Francesco is better-known by this name found in the title of Robert Browning's poem about him Andrea del Sarto |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Seen here is Antonio Canova's statue of this French emperor's scandalous sister Pauline Napoleon |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $1600: Sebastiano's enormous painting of the "Raising of" this Biblical man is in the National Gallery in London Lazarus |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Lorenzo Ghiberti is best-known for the magnificent bronze doors he created for the baptistery in this city Florence |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: William Hodges' painting of the statues on this south Pacific island may be seen at England's Nat. Maritime Museum Easter Island |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Sebastiano probably painted the "Judgement of" this Biblical king that was once attributed to Giorgione Solomon |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece Lord Byron |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: This woman painted the charming little girl & dog seen here Mary Cassatt |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: This American known for his mobiles also created a wire portrait of Josephine Baker Alexander Calder |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | CAMEL LOT $300: (Alex: Jimmy's still there.) Camel hairs are sometimes used to make these for artists paintbrushes |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $200: When their "MmmBop" reached No. 1 in May 1997, they became the first artists born in the 1980s to have a No. 1 single Hanson |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: The aptly-named Terry Frost created a painting called this season of the year "1956, Yorkshire" winter |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Fittingly, this woman holds a Tudor rose in the portrait by Nicholas Hilliard seen here Queen Elizabeth I |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: William Hodges journeyed to the south Pacific as an artist to this captain & painted the portrait of him seen here Captain James Cook |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: John Hoppner, a favorite royal portrait artist of the late 1700s, was rumored to be an illegitimate son of this king George III |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: This contemporary Brit has long been in the swim with paintings such as "Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool" David Hockney |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | '60s POP QUIZ $1000: Little-known artists Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix made big impressions at this 1967 festival Monterey Pop Festival |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: The famous Gustave Caillebotte painting seen here depicts this city on a rainy day Paris |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Seen here in a self-portrait, Madame Vigee Lebrun was painter to this queen before fleeing France in 1789 Marie Antoinette |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $600: (The entire Clue Crew lounges about on the grass, picnic-style, with Cheryl reading.) It's what we're having right now, or the title of a scandalous 1863 Manet painting Luncheon on the Grass |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800: His 1888 portrait of Ellen Barre, seen here, is much more subdued than his nightlife paintings Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1000: This impressionist painted his wife Camille in a kimono in the 1870s portrait seen here Monet |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | SO, COME HERE OFTEN? $800: The small caves in this tourist site, seen here, contain ancient rock paintings by Aboriginal artists Ayers Rock (Uluru) |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | ART & ARTISTS $100: Gauguin's mom was Peruvian, & from 1851 to 1855 he lived with her in this capital city Lima |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1766 George Stubbs, a noted painter of these animals, published a book on their anatomy horses |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | ART & ARTISTS $300: Masterpieces in this Manhattan museum include "Starry Night" & "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" Museum of Modern Art |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This abstract artist's method of applying paint, as in "Autumn Rhythm", earned him the nickname "Jack the Dripper" Jackson Pollock |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | ART & ARTISTS $500: This American woman scoffed at charges that her close-up paintings of flowers had sexual imagery Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $200: She had her first one-woman show in 1940, when she was 80; her 100th birthday was declared a holiday Grandma Moses |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $400: The self-portraits of this artist seen here are based on photos by Christopher Makos Andy Warhol |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $600: This "Night Watch" artist painted portraits of himself throughout his lifetime Rembrandt |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $800: This Spanish artist, court painter to Charles IV, is seen here in an 1815 self-portrait Goya |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $1000: Berthe Morisot, the first female impressionist, was the sister-in-law of this "Luncheon on the Grass" painter (Édouard) Manet |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $300: Important on-set experience can be gained working as one of these aka atmospheres or background artists an extra |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $500: They're the 2 main unions that represent professional TV & film actors in Hollywood AFTRA & SAG |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $200: Graham Sutherland's 1949 portrait of this "Of Human Bondage" author is in the Tate Gallery Somerset Maugham |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400: The Uffizi is home to Nicolas Froment's triptych "The Raising of" this Biblical man Lazarus |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $800: "The Disasters of War" is a grim series of etchings that this Spaniard began in 1810 Francisco Goya |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $1000: "The Laughing Cavalier", seen here, may be the most famous portrait by this Antwerp-born artist Frans Hals |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $2,100 (Daily Double): This artist famed for his mobiles created a miniature circus that's in the Whitney Museum of American Art Alexander Calder |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: In the 1860s this Frenchman, truly a deep "thinker", briefly studied for the religious life Rodin |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: You'll find Pierre Puvis de Chavannes' "Young Girls by the Edge of the Sea" seen here in this city's Musee d'Orsay Paris |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $600: Jacques-Louis David's 1787 painting of "The Death of" this man features a cup of hemlock Socrates |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Honore Daumier was imprisoned in 1832 for depicting King Louis Philippe as this Rabelaisian giant Gargantua |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): You'll know that he painted the "Musicians of the Orchestra", seen here, if you look at the performers in the background (Edgar) Degas |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | SCHOOL DAYS $300: Superstar artists Robert Longo & Cindy Sherman both did time at this university's Buffalo campus SUNY (State University of New York) |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | A WORLD OF ART $100: James Ensor's 1888 painting the "Entry of Christ Into" this Belgian capital "in 1889" was rejected by his fellow artists Brussels |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE MOVIE STAR $800: Many stars are repped (as we say in the biz) by this agency, abbreviated CAA & founded by Michael Ovitz Creative Artists Agency |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: Briton Riviere was lionized for his painting of this man "In The Lions' Den" Daniel |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Using the alias Phiz, H.K. Browne was the original illustrator of "Bleak House" & many other works by this author Charles Dickens |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: His sister Frances Reynolds also painted; he said of her works, "They make other people laugh and me cry" Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): He painted his own daughters chasing a butterfly in the portrait seen here; neither is wearing blue Thomas Gainsborough |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Artist George Romney thought this beautiful lady was quite an eyeful; so did Lord Nelson Lady Hamilton |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | "JACK" BE NIMBLE $500: Restraining device often used by escape artists seen here Straitjacket |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $100: Robert Delaunay is known for his colorful series of Cubist paintings of this French tower Eiffel Tower |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $200: Oh oh! Chauncey B. Ives depicted this mythological woman seen here on the verge of opening a box Pandora |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $300: Marcel Duchamp coined this term to describe Alexander Calder's moving sculptures Mobiles |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400: Conrad Witz depicted this wealthy queen with King Solomon in the 15th C. work seen here Queen of Sheba |
| #3815, aired 2001-03-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $500: In Salzburg you can visit the graves of his parents & his wife Constanze; his own location is uncertain W.A. Mozart |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | LEISURE TIME $300: Many amateur artists use the medium seen here named for its non-oil based pigments watercolor |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: "Red Vineyard at Arles" was possibly the only painting this Dutchman sold during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A famous Rembrandt painting shows "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of" this ancient poet Homer |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He depicted a poppy field in a hollow near Giverny in the painting seen here Claude Monet |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: He's the great 16th century German artist seen here in a self-portrait Albrecht Durer |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, one of this painter's views of Toledo can be seen at his museum in Toledo, Spain El Greco |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Gauguin collected art by painters of this movement, like Pissarro & Monet & exhibited with them from 1880 to 1882 Impressionism |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Bernini designed the colonnade around the piazza at this basilica to represent the church's embrace St. Peter's Basilica |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ART & ARTISTS $600: A landscape by this "elder" Flemish painter is seen here Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This Belgian surrealist painted a pipe & the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") Rene Magritte |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: Around 1884 Edgar Degas painted the portrait seen here of this fellow impressionist Mary Cassatt |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | BUILDING PARTS $200: It's a raised section of a room where you store hay, or an upper-story room for artists Loft |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: In the 1800s Argentinean cowboys called this inspired the works of many writers & artists gauchos |
| #3759, aired 2000-12-28 | PLAYING WITH FIRE $200: With fire, wood is turned into this material for artists' drawing sticks charcoal |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $100: This Spanish surrealist collaborated on 2 films with Luis Bunuel, "Un Chien Andalou" & "L'Age D'Or" Salvador Dali |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Toulouse-Lautrec's 1892 painting "At" this music hall features portraits of himself, his cousin & other patrons Moulin Rouge |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $300: This Frenchman considered "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" to be his "Best Canvas" Paul Gauguin |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $500: In this work, Van Gogh captured the misery of a family gathered around a table dining only on a plate of spuds "The Potato Eaters" |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $800 (Daily Double): This Russian-born artist designed the stained glass windows for Jerusalem's Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center Marc Chagall |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $600: This city's renaissance artists, like Titian & Giorgione, emphasized color more than the Florentines Venice |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $200: Omri & Julie Rotblatt-Amrany sculpted this superstar athlete in bronze for Chicago's United Center Michael Jordan |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $400: This "American Gothic" creator was a leading regionalist, his region being Iowa Grant Wood |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $600: Edgar Leeteg, who painted Tahitian maidens on velvet, is known as "The American" equivalent of this French painter Paul Gauguin |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1000: Notable artists named Cindy include this woman known for her self-portraits in modern & Renaissance garb Cindy Sherman |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $6,100 (Daily Double): Robert Motherwell is best known for his "Elegy to" this European "republic" of the 1930s Spanish Republic |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: His NYC art gallery, 291, was the first in the U.S. to exhibit such European artists as Matisse & Picasso Alfred Stieglitz |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $200: In 1919 this producer/director found United Artists along with Charlie Chaplin & 2 others D.W. Griffith |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | BATMAN'S WORLD $200: A family of circus trapeze artists produced this orphaned son Dick Grayson/Robin |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | NEWS FLASH 1896 $500: A tale of doomed & impoverished artists, this Puccini opera premieres in Turin "La boheme" |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $500: The second pope of this name, reigning from 1503 to 1513, patronized artists including Michelangelo Julius |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | BACK IN THE '90s $300: In 1990 4 performance artists sued this government body for denying them grants the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): She published her first book "Contemporary Women Artists", to raise money for the Carmelite order Sister Wendy |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN $300: White crossover artists featured on "Soul Train" have included David Bowie & this "Island Girl" singer Elton John |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $200: Charlton Heston in "The Agony and the Ecstasy" Michelangelo |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $600: Anthony Quinn in "Lust for Life" Paul Gauguin |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $800: David Bowie in "Basquiat" Andy Warhol |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1000: Gerard Depardieu in "Camille Claudel" Auguste Rodin |
| #3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $2,000 (Daily Double): Jose Ferrer in "Moulin Rouge" Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | RADIO WAVES $100: With over 2,300 stations, this format featuring artists like Alan Jackson is the USA's most popular Country & Western |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | ARTISTS $200: The secret art of this man is seen here:
(illustration of "The Cat in the Hat") Dr. Seuss |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | ARTISTS $400: Part of this artist's "Water Garden in Giverny" is seen here: Claude Monet |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | ARTISTS $600: This surrealist was buried at the Theater-Museum in Figueres, Spain that contains most of his works Salvador Dali |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | ARTISTS $1000: A typical work by this painter is seen here: Mark Rothko |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | ARTISTS $1,400 (Daily Double): His work, seen here, was influenced by his Jewish upbringing in Russia:
("The Fiddler") Marc Chagall |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 30-SECOND THEATER $600: HIV-positive artists & musicians sing in a Lower East Side loft "Rent" |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | POLITICS & SHOW BIZ $400: Artists like Gladys Knight have recorded the songs of this senior senator from Utah Orrin Hatch |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $500: Mourners at Monet's 1926 funeral included fellow artists & this WWI French premier known as "The Tiger" Georges Clemenceau |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $100: He was living in Tahiti when he painted "Poemes Barbares" in 1896 Paul Gauguin |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: We know he painted the absinthe drinker seen here, though there's nary a tutu in sight: Edgar Degas |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $300: Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun was noted for portraits of this queen, including the one with her children, seen here: Marie Antoinette |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Andre Derain was a prominent painter in this style whose name is from the French for "wild beasts" Fauvism |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $500: This resident of Argenteuil painted "The Regatta at Argenteuil", seen here: Claude Monet |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", Venus is standing on this a scallop shell |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This style of painting is characterized by broad transparent areas of paint called washes Watercolor |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | ART & ARTISTS $600: In the 1740s this "Blue Boy" painter worked as a restorer of paintings for art dealers Thomas Gainsborough |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | ART & ARTISTS $800: A caption on this famous Lichtenstein painting reads in part, "...ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky" "Whaam!" |
| #3504, aired 1999-11-25 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: In 1516 he succeeded Giovanni Bellini as state painter of the government of Venice Titian |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | UNDER THE "C" $400: Produced by the destructive distillation of wood, it helps artists draw the line Charcoal |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | ODDS & ENDS $300: NYU's main campus is located in this Manhattan area, a haven for many Bohemian artists Greenwich Village |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | ART & ARTISTS $100: Veronese's & Tintoretto's versions of this Biblical meal each depict a dog The Last Supper |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This term for a painting of inanimate objects is from the Dutch "stilleven" still life |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | ART & ARTISTS $300: Antonio Canova's nude "Mars the Peacemaker" statue wasn't liked by its subject, this French emperor Napoleon |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Canaletto view of this square shows the Doge's palace & the Loggia of Sansovino Saint Mark's Square |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | ART & ARTISTS $500: "The Spinners" by Diego Velazquez is based on this mythical spinner Arachne |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | BUSINESSMEN $200: In the 1920s businessman Marcus Loew combined 3 movie production companies to form this one MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Jan Vermeer's "Young Woman with a Water Jug" is an example of genre painting from this country Holland |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Take a look: He once smashed a Fifth Avenue window to rearrange a display of his work (Salvador) Dali |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Former Premier Georges Clemenceau attended the 1926 funeral of this "Water Lilies" painter Monet |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Although known for his Maine seascapes, he often traveled to the Adirondacks & Florida to paint Winslow Homer |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: In this Renaissance master's "Madonna of the Goldfinch", the infants Jesus & John the Baptist are next to the Virgin Mary Raphael |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $200: After a violent episode 2 years before his death, this Dutchman committed himself to an asylum but continued to paint Vincent Van Gogh |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In his final years, he worked on pietas that are less famous than the one he created for the Vatican Michelangelo |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In short -- very short -- he not only painted "At the Moulin Rouge", he hung out there Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: (Alex: Welcome to an outdoor museum of sculptures by Swedish artist Carl Milles) Carl Milles' early work was influenced by this French sculptor of "The Kiss" Auguste Rodin |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This great 20th century Spanish artist painted "The Blue Room" during his Blue Period Pablo Picasso |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | SOCIAL ISSUES $300: Also used by trapeze artists, it refers to programs like Medicare that protect the needy safety net |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | BUT IS IT ART? $300: The work of "Artists Barely in Control of the Brush" is seen at Boston's MOBA, museum of this art Bad art |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | IT'S A LEAP $400: In song Kenny Loggins & Bruce Springsteen are among artists who've taken a "leap of" this Faith |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In October 1888 this painter joined Van Gogh in Arles; he fled after that ugly ear incident Paul Gauguin |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $400: "The Dance", also the title of the work seen here, was one of this artist's favorite scenes: Henri Matisse |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $600: In November 1998 the Getty Museum bought his seminal 1870s painting "Impression: Sunrise" Claude Monet |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This American painted portraits of fashionable society, & the one of Robert Louis Stevenson seen here John Singer Sargent |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This 17th century Spaniard created the intriguing & complex portrait seen here: Diego Velazquez |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | POP MUSIC $500: Before recording their own songs in 1969, he & Bernie Taupin wrote for other artists Elton John |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $200: Sticks of this used by artists for sketching are often made from willow wood charcoal |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This American masterpiece has been widely satirized--the sign of a true classic American Gothic |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Philadelphia museum devoted to this "Thinker" sculptor has a bronze cast of his "Burghers of Calais" Auguste Rodin |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $600: She painted flowers big like the one seen here so that even busy New Yorkers take time to see them Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: His collections include "My Camera in Yosemite Valley" & "Portfolio Two: The National Parks" Ansel Adams |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: The "impression" that this artist painted the work seen here is correct Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This "Pieta" sculptor's statue of Bacchus is in the Bargello in Florence Michelangelo |
