| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: It's the type of item seen here; government-funded arts & crafts in the '30s led to the newer meaning, wasteful project a boondoggle |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $400: In response to this Black nationalist's death in 1965, Amiri Baraka wrote "Black Art", an early poem of the Black Arts Movement Malcolm X |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $800: A poem by Askia M. Touré refers to this "Giant Steps" saxophonist as a "Black priest prophet" Coltrane |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1200: After a famous memoir, this poet found success with her collection "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" Maya Angelou |
| #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 |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $2000: The star of a 2023 HBO doc, this poet & her work "Black Judgment" helped take the Black Arts Movement to national prominence Nikki Giovanni |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $400: When this martial arts master won an honorary Oscar at the 2016 Governors Awards, he thanked Hong Kong, his "hometown" Jackie Chan |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | OVERLAPS $1600: Niacin or folate reigning as the Roman goddess of the arts & war vitaminerva |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $400: A 1957 issue of Apparel Arts Magazine had this subtitle, which would eventually be shortened--or refitted?--to GQ Gentlemen's Quarterly |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | PAPER $600: This French-named arts & crafts material is repulped paper mixed with glue that's used to mold masks & toys papier-mâché |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $400: This famed chorus ends part II of Handel's "Messiah" Hallelujah |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $800: Nicole Kidman starred in the 2006 film "Fur", "an imaginary portrait of" this female photographer Arbus |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $1200: His many paintings of ballerinas include "The Dance Class", an oil from the 1870s Degas |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $1600: A 2024 show at the National Gallery of Art called "The Anxious Eye" focuses on this moody style, a nationality plus an -ism German Expressionism |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $2000: Ooh! The romantic 1841 ballet named for this doomed heroine always gives me "the Wilis" Giselle |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY $400: Depicted here with Apollo, the sisters who presided over the arts & sciences had this collective name the Muses |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $800: Reynolds of the visual arts, Bell of classical music Joshua |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $200: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has the Sons of Liberty Bowl, produced by this silversmith, along with a portrait of him by Copley Paul Revere |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $1000: The Chiswick Table & the Chichester Grille are at this decorative arts museum in London Victoria and Albert |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $400: This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $1200: As in Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, an undulating line, often in the form of vine tendrils, is characteristic of this style Art Nouveau |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $2000: The one-syllable name of this Japanese theatrical form comes from a word meaning "talent" or "skill" noh |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts" The Rite of Spring |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $2000: "Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name Wu-Tang Clan |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | THE CALIFORNIANS $600: "Yo" as in Yosemite, this bro established a gnarly photography department at the Cali School of Fine Arts in 1946 Ansel Adams |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | TRAVEL TEXAS $600: On Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, a visual arts center with a guitar-shaped gallery honors the life & legacy of this early rocker Buddy Holly |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | FROM THE FRENCH $2000: This 11-letter word for a lover of the arts comes from the French for "know" connoisseur |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $200: Kendo & hapkido, to name just 2 martial arts |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WALLPAPER $2000: This 19th century Arts & Crafts movement designer, with a name fit for a Hollywood agent, made wallpapers like Rose & Jasmine (William) Morris |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $800: This London museum with 2 first names is renowned for its collection of decorative arts the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | GET KOALA-FIED $800: Cece the koala is the mascot of Columbia College, a liberal arts school in the capital of this state South Carolina |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $200: With her Grammy win for the narration of her "Finding Me" memoir, she became the newest member of the EGOT club in 2023 Viola Davis |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $400: Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt is one of the foremost interpreters of Bach's works, including his "Well-Tempered" this clavier |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $600: The woman in gold in this artist's famous painting was Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Jewish socialite Klimt |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $800: One of the inaugural exhibits at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures honored this anime director of "Spirited Away" Miyazaki |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $1000: Sadly, mental illness ended the career of this Russian-born ballet dancer in 1919 while he was still in his 20s Nijinsky |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $200: The Mariinsky (formerly Kirov) is in St. Petersburg; the ballet company in Moscow has this name dating back to 1825 the Bolshoi |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $400: Bizet's "Toréador Song" is a standout in this 1875 opera Carmen |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $600: Britannica noted "the eerie light of an all-night coffee stand" in this 1942 Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $800: This bas-relief horizontal panel common in ancient art didn't always depict heroic deeds; here's one showing a census a frieze |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $1,800 (Daily Double): Psychoanalysts used drawings by this painter in his own therapy sessions from 1939 to 1941 Jackson Pollock |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $800: This classical trio whose name is French for "fine arts" lasted for 53 years with pianist Menahem Pressler joined by different musicians Beaux Arts |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | ETYMOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): The word delectable is related to this word that refers to one who dabbles in the fine arts or other areas dilettante |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: This Pulitzer winner for "The Underground Railroad" has a degree from Harvard & received the 2018 Harvard Arts medal Colson Whitehead |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: (I'm Troian Bellisario.) Considering my first name, maybe I was predestined to attend this university's school of dramatic arts where I earned a fine arts degree; fight on, Trojans! USC |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | LITERARY MOVEMENTS $1200: Poet & playwright Amiri Baraka is considered the founder of this 1960s & '70s movement, BAM for short the Black Arts Movement |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $800: ...in the 8-letter "arts" relating to cooking or the kitchen U (for culinary) |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $400: Dvorak wrote this symphony in New York City; parts of it were modeled on "The Song of Hiawatha" the New World Symphony |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $800: This statue in Vatican City is the only sculpture Michelangelo ever signed the Pietà |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $1200: The barcarolle heard here is one of the most famous tunes by this German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $1600: Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet "Isadora" is a tribute to this dance innovator Isadora Duncan |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $2000: One of the most famous works by this Belgian surrealist is a painting of a pipe that says, "This is not a pipe" Magritte |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $1200: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Oscar-nominated for films like "BlacKkKlansman" & the documentary "4 Little Girls", this acclaimed filmmaker is a tenured professor of film & artistic director at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Spike Lee |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $800: 1804 to 1815 is known as the Empire Period; in the decorative arts it featured swans, a symbol of this empress Josephine |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MONKEY BUSINESS $800: This "great ultimate" Chinese exercise & martial arts system uses animal "forms" including bear, tiger & monkey tai chi |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $200: Here's this Italian composer looking like he could use a visit from the Barber of Seville Rossini |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $400: Aaron Copland composed the music for a ballet set in the southwest & named for this notorious bandit Billy the Kid |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $600: A depiction of Nike discovered on a Greek island in 1863, this statue is thought to commemorate a sea battle Winged Victory |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $800: The title character of "Petrouchka" is one of these that comes to life & is immortal--terrifying! a puppet |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this play by Eugene O'Neill refers in part to a pair of trees that surrounds the Cabot farmhouse Desire Under the Elms |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $2000: Seen here is this famous madam, an official mistress of Louis XV & a patron of the arts Madame de Pompadour |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $100: Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends Hogwarts |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1600: Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park & the Thunderbird Arts Center Phoenix |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BUT WE REPEAT OURSELVES $1500: Did you study up on your calculus? Because that's another word for this hard yellowish substance that can cause tooth decay tartar |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $400: It's now generally acknowledged that sculptor Selma Burke's bas-relief portrait of FDR inspired his image on this object the dime |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In 2015 this African-American prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town" Misty Copeland |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $1200: In the 1960s, she created a work of art consisting of an apple on a plexiglass stand (Yoko) Ono |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $1600: Best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, she was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 (Maya) Lin |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $2000: According to her website, this former wife of Andrew Lloyd Webber is the world's biggest-selling soprano (Sarah) Brightman |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $800: Don't ask how I got this Rodin bronze from outside the Detroit Institute of Arts, but it's 2,000 lbs. & now we gotta get it in the truck The Thinker |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE MET: A VERSE $200: Siegfrieds & Salomes had better learn their parts to sing at the Met in this center "for the Performing Arts" Lincoln Center |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $600: (Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In 1986, the San Diego Museum of Arts mounted the first ever retrospective exhibit for this longtime La Jolla resident who had recently been named one of San Diego’s living treasures Dr. Seuss |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $400: The title character of this fairy tale ballet pretends a broom is her dance partner at the ball Cinderella |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $800: Poor Mimi in this Puccini opera dies from tuberculosis La bohème |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $1200: Tchaikovsky said that this overture of his was "very loud & noisy" & "completely without artistic merit" the 1812 Overture |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $1600: "The Son of Man", a painting by this Belgian, has a man in a bowler hat with his face blocked by a green apple Magritte |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $2000: Black sculptor Edmonia Lewis depicted exclusion in her art like this mother of Ishmael cast out into the wilderness Hagar |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $600: Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra Pittsburgh |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE 5th CENTURY $2000: This temple was founded in Henan, China around 495 & became associated with Zen Buddhism & martial arts the Shaolin |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $600: Already a superhero onscreen as Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, this man leapt out of a car to stop a mugging in 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THAT'S NOT CANNON $200: Filipino-American martial arts master Dan Inosanto introduced Bruce Lee to this weapon, 2 rods connected by a chain nunchucks |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $1200: Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city Newport |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | LANDMARK LEGISLATION $800: The 1862 act that provided money for land-grant colleges specified that they should teach mechanical arts & this agriculture |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $200: Here's something to ponder... purchased as a gift to Paris, this Rodin sculpture was placed outside the Panthéon in 1906 The Thinker |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $400: In pottery, when feldspar is added to clay & hit with 2,000-degree temps, the product turns translucent & is called this porcelain |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $800: His painting of a peasant woman of Nuenen peeling potatoes isn't nearly as famous as his "Potato Eaters" van Gogh |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): A new exhibit, this movement "Beyond Borders" has a 1936 work showing high heels & a rosary tangled in what looks like fish nets Surrealism |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $1000: Piet Mondrian "saw my line quiver", said this sculptor; inspired, he began to make mobiles, whole pieces that quiver Alexander Calder |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $400: This city's art museum unveiled a $150 mil. renovation including a new gallery devoted to Colorado peoples like the Arapaho Denver |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $800: A Pietà Michelangelo made for his own tomb, struggling with poor-quality this stone, was unveiled after a major restoration marble |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $1600: MTT, this longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, returned to the podium in 2021 following brain surgery Michael Tilson Thomas |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $2000: In France's largest gift of art back to a former colony, the doors of Abomey went back to this country, formerly Dahomey Benin |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | THE FINE ARTS $0: A 1920s trip to France inspired him to compose "An American in Paris" (George) Gershwin |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $800: Meet up in Yitzhak Rabin Square & enjoy the Israeli opera at the performing arts centre in this 2-word city Tel Aviv |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $1200: Like Langston Hughes, painter & illustrator Aaron Douglas was a leading figure of this arts movement centered in New York the Harlem Renaissance |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | NOAHS $400: In addition to giving us his spelling book in 1783, he helped found the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences Noah Webster |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $400: Founded in 1891 as a vocational & liberal arts school, this Pasadena college became famous for physics & space science Caltech |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | STARTS WITH "W" $2000: This Chinese word meaning "martial arts" is used for disciplines like kung fu wushu |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 16th CENTURY ARTS $800: This end-blown instrument was very popular; Henry VIII had a large collection of them a recorder |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 16th CENTURY ARTS $1200: This portrait by Leonardo was never delivered to the subject & was sold to the king of France around 1520 the Mona Lisa |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 16th CENTURY ARTS $1600: Parmigianino painted a self-portrait in this curved item, also the title of John Ashbery's poem about the painting a convex mirror |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 16th CENTURY ARTS $2000: This great German printmaker left a diary of his travels across Europe, including his wife having her purse stolen in Antwerp Dürer |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 19th CENTURY STUFF $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1899 the queen laid the cornerstone for this London arts & design museum the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V & A) |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $200: For many years Arturo Toscanini was the principal conductor & music director at this famed Milan opera house La Scala |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $400: In the 1980s, the designers seen here launched this fashion brand--D&G for short Dolce & Gabbana |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $600: 1950's "Luci del varieta", or "Variety Lights", was his first feature film as director Fellini |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $1000: "Bridge of Sighs"s is by this artist, whose detailed paintings of Venice & London influenced generations of landscape painters Canaletto |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $1,400 (Daily Double): It's the Italian name for the lively folk dance also known as "the dance of the spider" the tarantella |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | 200 YEARS AGO $800: Noah Webster helped found this Massachusetts liberal arts college in 1821 Amherst |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $400: Joseph Haydn told Leopold, dad of this prodigy, "Your son is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name" Mozart |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $800: "Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine", sings Rodolfo to Mimi in this opera La bohème |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1200: The christening, the spell & the awakening are all part of this fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1600: Eugene O'Neill described this 4-act family drama as "old sorrow written in tears & blood" Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late summer arts festival in the desert that's a basement hangout with TV & beer Burning Man cave |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $2000: Paul Signac used this technique that he helped pioneer in his painting "The Red Buoy" seen here Pointillism |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | REVIVAL $10,400 (Daily Double): Search Etsy for the revival of this 19th c. movement of William Morris that itself looked back to the fine work of medieval times Arts & Crafts |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | OH MY GODS! $800: Saraswati, Hindu goddess of learning & the arts, is considered the inventor of this language Sanskrit |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $400: The first deaf & blind person to earn a bachelor of arts, this woman noted, "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement" Helen Keller |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: This man divided his library into history, philosophy & fine arts; the Library of Congress kept the system when it took it over Thomas Jefferson |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | WHICH COLLEGE? $1000: Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts USC |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $400: Choreographer Eliot Feld turned the music of Johann Strauss Jr. into these "dotty" dances polkas |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $800: The Queen's this small house of worship is a masterpiece of British Palladian architecture a chapel |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $1600: In physics it's a type of energy; in art it's a type of sculpture involving movement, like the works of Takis, which use magnetism kinetic |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $2000: This Italian word means an often winged cherubic moppet seen especially in Renaissance paintings putti (putto) |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $4,200 (Daily Double): In this Tchaikovsky ballet, each suitor hands Aurora a flower during the "Rose Adagio" Sleeping Beauty |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $400: In Act 1 of this ballet, the drably attired title girl helps a beggarwoman, who turns out to be a fairy godmother Cinderella |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $800: The black, white & gray imagery in this 1937 Picasso mural includes a braying horse that has stumbled over a fallen warrior Guernica |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $1600: In 1919 Walter Gropius became the head of this school of architecture based in Weimar Bauhaus |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $2000: His music for the ballet "The Firebird" made him an overnight success Stravinsky |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $6,600 (Daily Double): This American is legendary for the black & white landscapes he captured with his cameras Ansel Adams |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SAVE OUR LANDMARKS! $600: In 2014 railings on Paris' Pont des Arts Bridge collapsed under the weight of tons of these affixed by romantic couples locks (padlocks) |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $1000: "Enter the Dragon", 1973: this martial arts legend Bruce Lee |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1200: The Winterthur Museum of Decorative Arts in Delaware was founded by a member of this famous family du Pont |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $400: The ballet "Giselle" is based on a legend about the wilis, ghostly young maidens who have died before this special event their wedding |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $800: Giada De Laurentiis attended this French cooking school that today offers le grand diplome Le Cordon Bleu |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $1000: This woman dreamed a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" & a novel was born Mary Shelley |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: Directors François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard are associated with this film style, nouvelle vague in French the new wave |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1600: The first mention of this embroidered work, a portion of which is seen here, was in an inventory of cathedral treasures in 1476 the Bayeux Tapestry |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $2000: "Danse macabre" is one of this composer's symphonic poems Saint-Saëns |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | MUSIC VENUES $800: A frieze called "The Triumph of Arts & Letters" adorns this Royal London venue the Royal Albert Hall |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $400: Aka Po, this martial arts master from animated film came to TV with the subtitle "Legends of Awesomeness" the Kung Fu Panda |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $200: "Wait until the evening before opening night", said Rossini of writing these instrumental pieces played before operas overtures |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: Male ballet dancers generally don't wear these on their feet; one exception is when men play the stepsisters in "Cinderella" pointe shoes |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $600: This American dropped his drip style for one dubbed "Black Pourings"; a 1951 show of them sold none (Jackson) Pollock |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $800: 10-letter word for your friend who wears outlandish colorful clothes, or for the showy late Gothic style seen here flamboyant |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $1000: This longtime exhibit of officially sanctioned French art crammed paintings onto walls the Salon |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $400: "The Book and the Sword" is a Wuxia novel, a Chinese story about these "arts" martial arts |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEST COAST STATE HIGHER ED $200: Founded in 1888 by the United Methodist Church, the univ. of this inlet is a liberal arts school in Tacoma serving 2,400 undergrads Puget Sound |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | THE CONSTITUTION SAYS $400: Patents & copyrights are authorized "to promote the progress of science and useful" these arts |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $400: A traditional feature of African art, these items were the focus of a 2016 exhibition titled "Disguise" masks |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $800: These pieces of artwork took off in value in the 1980s, with one from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" going for $50,600 an individual animation cel |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $1200: In 2019 Christie's auctioned works from the collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, sister of this first lady Jackie Kennedy |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $1600: This controversial artist made headlines when he recently opened "Dismaland", a unique take on amusement parks Banksy |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $2000: Bregenz, Austria is known for the artistry of its floating stages, like the great wall as the backdrop of this Puccini opera Turandot |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $2000: Damien Hirst & director Steve McQueen have won the British visual arts prize named for this 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $800: The name of this university honors a 13th century French theologian the Sorbonne |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) The 20th century painting here of southern France is by Jean, great-grandson of this 19th century French romantic author Victor Hugo |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1600: It's no folly--this Paris music hall has been a hotspot since the 1886 revue "Place au Jeunes" Folies Bergère |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $2000: This one-named designer created the iconic little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Givenchy |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $400: In 1957 Danish architect Jørn Utzon won a contest to design this; his winning entry featured sail-like shells the Sydney Opera House |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $800: Ceramicist Beatrice Wood was nicknamed "The Mama" of this art movement Dada |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $1200: In 1605 this Brit wrote "Advancement of Learning"; the "Screaming Popes" is a series by a British artist of the same name (Francis) Bacon |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $2000: In the movie "Fur" Nicole Kidman played this photographer of people on the edge of society (Diane) Arbus |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $2000: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) I became a stronger, faster & more intense basketball player through my training with the great Bruce Lee, who pioneered mixed martial arts with the hybrid fighting style he called this, abbreviated JKD Jeet Kune Do |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $15,200 (Daily Double): In this 1951 play, Serafina's dead husband sports the title ink on his chest The Rose Tattoo |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | IT'S A HAND! IT'S MICHIGAN! $2000: Near the tip of the pinkie is this Center for the Arts where parents have sent talented children since 1928 Interlochen |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet" a Webby |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | AMERICAN WORLD'S FAIRS $800: Near the Presidio, the Palace of Fine Arts is the only structure remaining from this city's 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo San Francisco |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | THE SIRENS OF TITIAN $200: Titian painted Isabella d'Este, a patron of the arts, dubbed the First Lady of this artistic rebirth the Renaissance |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $200: He proposed to at least 3 women, including Eugenie Loyer in 1873, but this painter never wed on a "Starry Night"--or any other van Gogh |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $400: In 1806 this composer wrote to his "Immortal Beloved", "Can you change it that you are not wholly mine"; she couldn't Beethoven |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $600: This Norwegian depicted the effects of love in his painting called "Melancholy"; is it any wonder he never married? (Edvard) Munch |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $800: Rudolph Valentino, who was married to 2 women at once, was played on film by this Rudolf of the ballet who never wed Nureyev |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $1000: In 1759 this German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey; with no wife & kids, he paid for his own memorial Handel |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $800: Hull House was a center of the Arts & Crafts movement & in 1901 this architect spoke there on "the art & craft of the machine" (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | ITTY BITTY CITY $1600: Black Rock City is created & torn down every year as part of this Nevada arts festival Burning Man |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FAMOUS AMERICAN WOMEN $600: In 2016, this animal expert & autism spokesperson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Temple Grandin |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | ON WEEKENDS $1000: One fine Saturday, this "O"hio liberal arts college will move up from Div. III & take down Alabama football, 70-21; go Yeomen! Oberlin |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | STUFF ABOUT CELEBRITIES $400: This Oscar-winning actor was destined for greatness in the arts--he was named for da Vinci Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | FERGUSON $1600: AKA Kimbo Slice, Kevin Ferguson made his debut in this sport in 2007 at "Cage Fury Fighting Championships 5" MMA (or mixed martial arts) |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | AN APP FOR TEACHER $1000: Teachers share pictures with parents via the app called "Class" this 4-letter word, just like a Japanese martial arts school dojo |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | I NEED A SUPERHERO $2000: Filipino martial arts training helped Caity Lotz play Sara Lance, the "White Canary", who leads the time travelers on this DC TV show Legends of Tomorrow |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $400: Before his untimely death, he helped popularize martial arts movies Bruce Lee |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $400: This Rodin sculpture depicts a pensive nude man sitting on a rock, chin resting on his hand The Thinker |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $800: In 2019 visitors to the Rijksmuseum can observe as conservators restore this 1642 Rembrandt masterpiece Night Watch |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $1200: This basic ballet movement, a knee bend, gets its name from the French for "to bend" plié |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this drama by Henrik Ibsen is bored by her marriage to Jorgen Tesman Hedda Gabler |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $2000: This Czech composer was in the New World when he wrote his "New World" symphony & "The American Flag" (Antonin) Dvorak |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: This composer's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premiered in 1790 Mozart |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $800: A simile compares white skin to this ceramic material first made in China that has hard- & soft-paste types porcelain |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: In 1957's "Square Dance", this New York City Ballet founder combined classical technique with square dance calls George Balanchine |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $1600: This trumpeter composed "Blood on the Fields", a 1994 oratorio incorporating jazz rhythms Wynton Marsalis |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: Handel wrote a piece to celebrate this patron saint of music; maybe it's also her in the Paul Simon song St. Cecilia |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $400: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree Beethoven's 5th |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $800: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) An immigrant from Belarus at age 5, Irving Berlin felt a very personal connection to his new home, deliberately using the first person for these 4 words that follow the title "God Bless America" "land that I love" |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $1200: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) George Gershwin drew musical inspiration from the real world sounds around him; the wild car horns of the Etoile & the Arc de Triomphe are captured in this work An American in Paris |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $1600: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Russian composer Mily Balakirev suggested this Shakespeare play as a subject for Tchaikovsky, but the older musician's talk about being inspired by the love of a woman suggested that he didn't know Tchaikovsky very well Romeo and Juliet |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $2000: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) The last concert ever given by Franz Liszt, arguably the greatest pianist who ever lived, included this work, German for "love dream" "Liebestraum" |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OUR FAIR CITY $800: This city is home to Place des Arts & the McCord Museum of Canadian History Montreal |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: "The Book of Knowledge" is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges Minnesota |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES $200: "Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque" Cubism |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $400: The name of this leading ballet company means "great ballet" in Russian Bolshoi |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $1200: Erato, the muse of love poetry, is depicted holding this harp-like instrument a lyre |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $1600: Here's a poster by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha in this style that flourished from about 1880 to 1910 Art Nouveau |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $2000: Denzel Washington "arrived" on Broadway as Hickey in a 2018 revival of this drama by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $7,000 (Daily Double): Here is Eugene Delacroix's depiction of the death of this Shakespeare character Ophelia |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | VISITING ATLANTA $600: The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre stood in on this TV show as the CDC, which didn't solve the zombie problem The Walking Dead |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $400: In an opera based on this Grimm fairy tale, the title siblings come upon a house made of gingerbread & start noshing "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $800: Michelangelo was all of 26 when he began working on a giant sculpture of this Biblical figure for the city of Florence David |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $1200: Modernism in photography includes a 1907 work titled this, the low-class area of a ship near the rudder Steerage |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $1600: In this ballet, Siegfried is torn between Odette & Odile, who, by tradition, are danced by the same person Swan Lake |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $2000: The house where this artist lived & worked from 1639 to 1658 is now a museum in Amsterdam Rembrandt |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Founded in the U.S., this performing arts co. invites you to experience the "divine culture" of China, 5,000 years in the making Shen Yun |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: Humperdinck's opera about these fairy-tale siblings was the first complete opera aired on radio Hansel and Gretel |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $800: An annoyed critic wrote of this -ism's 1876 show, "Trees are not violet...the sky is not the color of fresh butter" Impressionism |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: You'll find several paintings Veronese on the eyes in Venice's Palazzo Ducale or these officials' "Palace" the doge |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $1,600 (Daily Double): He had nothing to do with the title, but Aaron Copland said, "I've begun to see the" mountains "myself" on hearing this piece Appalachian Spring |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: In a Delibes ballet, Dr. Coppelius is a toymaker & the title character Coppelia is one of these doll |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $1000: It's a gift of money as a legacy to provide income for an institution or a person; there's a national one for the arts an endowment |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $1200: These awards given annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences were awarded an OED entry the Webby Awards |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | MULTIPLE A's $800: No paintbrush needed, A.A. is short for this type of collegiate degree associate of arts |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Fordham has 2 main campuses: one in da Bronx & the other at this performing arts complex in Manhattan Lincoln Center |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | CRIME SCENES IN CLUE $800: A fine arts school, or a room with glass walls & a glass roof for growing plants a conservatory |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $1600: This arts center on the Potomac gives out the Irene Ryan scholarships to college actors the Kennedy Center |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $1000: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece a reed |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | FEW ARE CHOSEN $600: 1 in 10 arts & science college graduates is asked to join this "oldest academic honor society" Phi Beta Kappa |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | SHAKESPEARE IN GOV $1600: This embattled government organization was faulted for funding a wordless production of "Twelfth Night" National Endowment for the Arts |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | GET WITH THE PROGRAM! $400: The MCMAP is the martial arts program of this U.S. military branch the Marine Corps |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $2000: It was the field of Maria Mitchell, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences astronomy |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS $400: As president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs built a more inclusive AMPAS, short for the Academy of these Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "K"9 $1200: In this movie Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Thai martial arts to avenge his brother Kickboxer |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $200: Edvard Munch's diary entry where "the sky suddenly turned to blood" may have inspired this, his best-known painting The Scream |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $400: This liquid straw-colored part of blood consists of about 90% water plasma |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $600: Reviews at the time said this novel wasn't "a treatise on cetology" but "the plot is meagre beyond comparison" Moby Dick |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $800: Known for his portraits of full-figured ladies, this 17th c. Flemish artist painted 20+ large pictures of Marie de Medicis Rubens |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTS $1000: In 1704 Newton published a groundbreaking treatise on this science of light optics |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | SCHOOLED! $600: Sadly, Yo-Yo Ma & Robin Williams just missed overlapping at this NYC fine arts school Juilliard |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $200: Everyone in the Valley knows that this element is a semiconductor & makes up about 28% of Earth's crust silicon |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $400: Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" had the working title "Ballet for Martha", Martha being this dancer Martha Graham |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $600: AKA the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum, this collection of ancient Greek sculptures can't be "shot" for fun the Elgin Marbles |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $800: Impressionism got its name after Monet's landscape called "Impression:" this was exhibited in 1874 Impression, Sunrise |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $1000: Asexual reproduction, a cell duplicating itself, is nature's version of this controversial practice cloning |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | ADJECTIVES $200: This adjective found before "law" & "arts" means "warlike" martial |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | EASY JAPANESE $2000: In Japan, it's any teacher, not just of martial arts sensei |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | DANCE COMPANIES $1600: In 1974 the Agnes De Mille Heritage Dance Theatre was founded at the North Carolina School of the Arts in this 2-name city Winston-Salem |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 2-piece martial arts garment a gi |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ABBREV. $400: MFA is this graduate degree master of fine arts |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | YOU KIDS TODAY! $1000: Percentages of 2012 graduates carrying loans were 66 for public colleges & 88 for this type of private college for-profit colleges |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $1,000 (Daily Double): An arts patron & son of French immigrants gave his name to this school that's located at Lincoln Center in New York Juilliard |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: First Night, an arts festival in Boston, is held on this celebratory night New Year's Eve |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | ROOMS FULL OF CULTURE $2000: The Rose Cinemas & Harvey Theater are part of BAM, short for this cutting-edge arts center in New York City the Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | FROM THE JAPANESE $600: From the Japanese for "endure" comes this word for a mercenary highly trained in martial arts & stealth a ninja |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $1000: Tobias Wolff & Sally Field have won the National Medal of Arts from this "National" government agency the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $400: This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G Major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $1200: As in Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, an undulating line, often in the form of vine tendrils, is characteristic of this style Art Nouveau |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $1600: The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts" The Rite of Spring |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $2000: Have a seat in this chair, named for American designer Charles Eames |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | TV GUIDES $800: Stick is the martial arts master who taught Elektra & the title guy all they know on this Netflix series Daredevil |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $600: A bronze statue in Hong Kong honors this martial arts legend who would have turned 75 in 2015 Bruce Lee |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $1600: B.A. stretched to 13 letters (13) baccalaureate |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | 4-LETTER ENTERTAINMENT $1600: You're gonna live forever after naming this 1980s TV show about performing arts students in New York City Fame |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $200: Increasing sales, one building containing several movie theaters is known by this term a multiplex |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $400: In 2015 Universal became the first studio ever to have 3 films each pass this monetary earnings mark $1 billion |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $600: If you're sharing in a movie's revenue, you don't want your take based on net profits but on this opposite gross earnings |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $800: In production budgets, grips & catering are said to be "below" this; star actors & producers, "above" it the line |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $1000: This "wooden" term for the main film released during the summer peak season implies that it holds up a studio's fortunes tentpole |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | '90s MUSIC $2000: "Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name the Wu-Tang Clan |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $400: An antique furniture style is named for this long-reigning French king of the late 17th century Louis XIV |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $800: In 1857 Flaubert was tried & nearly convicted of immorality due to the subject matter of this novel Madame Bovary |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: At 15 in 1931 this "La Vie En Rose" singer was already supporting herself singing in Paris (Edith) Piaf |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1600: The Musee d'Orsay houses a large collection of 19th century French art, including his scandalous painting "Olympia" Edouard Manet |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $2000: "Manon" is probably the best-known opera by this composer whose last name also starts with "MA" Massenet |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $400: Visual Effects, 2000: John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke & Rob Harvey, for this film about MMA in ancient Rome Gladiator |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | LEGALIZE IT $400: In 2016 New York became the last state to legalize MMA, the sport of "mixed" these mixed martial arts |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | BRIDGES $200: In 2015 45 tons of love locks were removed from the Pont des Arts, one of the bridges on this river the Seine |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS $2000: A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this Enlightenment |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | HOW "SWEET" IT IS $2000: This liberal arts women's college in Virginia was founded in 1901 & named for the plantation on which it was built Sweet Briar College |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THE IMAGE AWARDS $200: Honoring African Americans in the arts, the Image Awards were established in 1967 by this organization the NAACP |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This creator of many comic book characters is seen here at his National Medal of Arts ceremony Stan Lee |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | COLLEGE TOWNS $800: This University of Oregon city boasts of being "a great city for the arts and outdoors" Eugene |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $2000: Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the only North American building designed by this Swiss architect Le Corbusier |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization the Metropolitan Opera |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | SCULPTURE $1200: This Yale master of fine arts is known for works like "The Fifth Season" & for being husband to Meryl Streep (Don) Gummer |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | ACCOUNTING $1600: Beloit is a liberal arts college; this Big 4 accounting firm that rhymes with Beloit has its own university Deloitte |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1200: She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1990, the same year as her husband Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1600: "It Happened One Night" in 1986 that this film director was awarded his medal Frank Capra |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: This 1996 honoree won 3 Pulitzers for his plays, the first for "A Delicate Balance" in 1967 Edward Albee |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: Shoichi Yabuta was tops in composing in the 2015 music competition held annually in this Swiss city since 1939 Geneva |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $800: This art movement got its name when a group of early 20th century French painters were dubbed "wild beasts" the Fauvists |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: In 1974 he defected from the USSR & joined ABT, becoming that company's artistic director in the '80s Baryshnikov |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Because it has 6 units called iambs, the poetic line "Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight" is in iambic this hexameter |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: This Bombay-born conductor was the first to lead 2 major North American orchestras at the same time Zubin Mehta |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | SARGENT $1600: Sargent painted this three-named patron of the arts, whose Boston museum includes a watercolor by Sargent Isabella Stewart Gardner |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | MUSEUMS $1600: South Kensington has a science museum, a natural history museum & a famed decorative arts museum named for this pair Victoria & Albert |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS $200: Gene Anthony Ray went to LaGuardia's precursor, the School of Performing Arts, & won renown in this movie about it Fame |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $200: The list, compiled in the 5th century, includes geometry & this branch of math where you add & subtract arithmetic |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $400: This one of the liberal arts concerns linguistic rules grammar |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $600: This art form may be "of the spheres" music |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $800: Mr. Spock would be pleased that this study of reasoning makes the grade logic |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | THE 7 LIBERAL ARTS $1000: Sometimes accused of being "empty", it's the art of using language to persuade rhetoric |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $1600: More often than not, this Catholic liberal arts college in Spokane seems to play a big role in NCAA "March Madness" Gonzaga |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | ABBREV. $1000: For some reason Britain's this "of Arts" is the RA, not the RAA the Royal Academy |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $600: In 1993 he became the 1st game show producer inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Mark Goodson |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $400: Enter the "Dragon", Jason Scott Lee (no relation) as this martial arts legend Bruce Lee |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $400: In 2013 Jeff Koons set a living-artist record with $58.4 million for a dog that looks like it's made of these, kids'-party style balloons |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $800: Delta disallowed 250,000 frequent flyer miles this string instrument accrued by having its own seat next to Lynn Harrell a cello |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $1200: The New York Philharmonic & the School of American Ballet are based at this complex Lincoln Center |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $1600: One of the first stops of this trane was a sax solo on a 1951 recording of "We Love To Boogie" John Coltrane |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $3,405 (Daily Double): Around 1900 this young Italian painter was influenced by a group called the Macchiaioli, or "stainers" Modigliani |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING $1600: This prestigious liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York was named for the wife of a real estate tycoon Sarah Lawrence College |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY! $600: For your expose on the gov.'s mime shakedown, it's this, "Honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917"! the Pulitzer |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $800: The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts Raleigh |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | SPANISH CLASS $1000: Arts & Crafts day, yay! Hand me these, las tijeras scissors |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | WATCH THE BIRDIE $600: Crane (voiced by David Cross) is one of the Furious Five in this 2008 martial arts film Kung Fu Panda |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | THE MUSEUM OF SOMETHING $800: of these "Arts", featuring Stieglitz & Weegee photographic |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $400: December is a good time to see this 1892 ballet that features the Sugar Plum Fairy The Nutcracker |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $1200: Donatello sculpted a marble statue of this biblical youth almost 100 years before Michelangelo David |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $1600: This city's pops is affectionately known as "America's Orchestra" Boston |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $2000: At the Louvre, 16th century Italian tapestries depict scenes from this poet's "Metamorphoses" Ovid |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $4,000 (Daily Double): Praise the Lord! Over a century old, this American form of Christian music combines elements of blues, jazz & spirituals gospel |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | NAME THE NETWORK $2000: "Bar Rescue",
"Ink Master",
lots of mixed martial arts Spike |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Contact sport that allows striking, kicking, grappling, pottery & needlework martial arts & crafts |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $200: Drummer Art Blakey was a real heavy cat in this style of music that preceded "Messengers" in his band's name jazz |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $400: Arthur Burns battled inflation as the chairman of this economic body from 1970 to 1978 The Fed (the Federal Reserve) |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $600: He attended UCLA on a tennis scholarship & in 1965 won the U.S. collegiate men's singles title Arthur Ashe |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $800: In 1965 this dance instructor & entrepreneur had more than 350 franchised dance studios Arthur Murray |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $1000: American philosopher Arthur Lovejoy's most famous work was "The Great Chain of" this Being |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | DETROIT ROCKS! $800: A controversial idea to help the city out of bankruptcy is to sell pieces from the DIA, the Detroit Institute of these Arts |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) Here in the Delaware countryside, a member of this prominent industrial family spent decades collecting often-overlooked early American art before turning his 175-room mansion into a museum du Pont |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) In 1929, Winterthur's owner showed he meant business when he paid a then-record $44,000 for a classic high chest of Philadelphia rococo, outbidding this controversial publisher (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) What was once the family's dining room has an early American theme with square-backed chairs from around 1800 in the federal style & tankards by this Boston patriot & silversmith Paul Revere |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) Contrasting with more elaborate rooms is one named for this religious group that believed crafting is an act of prayer & that items should be simply functional Shakers |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware.) Distressed by the discount-store furnishings, this woman reached out to the man who built up Winterthur to redecorate, especially the Green Room; she later wrote to him, "Everything lovely in the White House now is all your contribution" Jackie Kennedy |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | IT WAS THE '90s $1000: Infomercials helped popularize this martial arts-based workout with a Korean-derived name Tae Bo |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | BLACK SOCKS $800: In Japan black tabi doesn't refer to a cat but to socks worn by these masters of clandestine martial arts ninjas |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | NEW YORKERS $600: A New York Public Library for the Performing Arts exhibit on this man includes a self-portrait from when he helped write a failed musical Al Hirschfeld |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | THEY GAVE ME A MEDAL $400: Getting a 2009 National Medal of Arts made this actor/director's day; hope someone saved him an empty chair Clint Eastwood |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GET YOUR KICKS $1200: Jon "Bones" Jones, after a win in this sport: "I saw that my toe was upside down. Maybe it's not that serious of an injury" mixed martial arts |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | HO CHI MINH CITY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Built in the 1890s, Ho Chi Minh City's opera house is an outstanding example of the elegant architecture called French this French Colonial |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | COLORFUL EXPRESSIONS $1000: A magazine devoted to martial arts is named for this gi accessory a black belt |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $200: Nearly 10 feet long, "Lavender Mist" from 1950 is one of his drip paintings Jackson Pollock |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $400: The Pentelic type of this form of limestone was a favorite material of classical Greek sculptors marble |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $600: A rag is not just a Joplin tune but a melodic pattern of Indian music also called this, 1 letter longer than "rag" raga |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $800: A Michael Smuin work was the first full-length ballet shown on "Dance in America", part of this "great" PBS series Performances |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $1000: Perhaps the greatest composer of German songs, he died the year after his hero Beethoven (Franz) Schubert |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL $800: Noah Webster & Samuel Dickinson (Emily's grandpa) were among the co-founders of this private liberal arts college Amherst |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: Doing some blind tooling? You're probably making impressions in this material with hot tools, maybe on a book cover leather |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Named for its gauzy appearance, point de gaze is a type of this fabric developed in 19th c. Belgium lace |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: This name for the repetitive work seen here sounds like the worrying you might do about the artist's eyestrain fretwork |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: "The Lady and the Unicorn" is a 6-paneled one of these that once hung in the castle of Boussac a tapestry |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | GEORGE TOWN $200: A building at USC's Cinematic Arts Complex is named for this "Star Wars" filmmaker, a USC alumnus George Lucas |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: The Gammage Performing Arts Center at this school's main campus in Tempe was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Arizona State |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1200: This director of "The Ten Commandments" was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cecil DeMille |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | DAUGHTERS IN MYTHOLOGY $1600: These 9 daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne presided over the arts & sciences the Muses |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | CELEBRITIES $800: Before making it big on screen as Jacob Black, he was big into martial arts & was a junior world champion Taylor Lautner |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $400: The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Michigan |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | STATE OF THE ART MUSEUM $1600: The Sun Valley Center for the Arts Idaho |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | I LOVE "L.A." $400: Literature, history & philosophy are included in this type of modern college curriculum the Liberal Arts |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | WHAT DEGREE DID THEY GET? $2000: 1994:
Billy Crudup's artistry is recognized an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | TALK OF THE TOWN $200: Milton called it "the eye of Greece, mother of arts & eloquence" Athens |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $400: This French art movement held its first show in 1874 Impressionism |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $600 (Daily Double): "Neptune, the Mystic" ends this Gustav Holst work The Planets |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $800: In 1928 he composed "Bolero" as a ballet (Maurice) Ravel |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $1600: In 2012 Joshua Bell played this instrument at the grand opening of Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts the violin |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $2000: The 1824 countryside painting "The Lock" is his costliest, going for $35 million in 2012 (John) Constable |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, it's the leading award for Internet sites a Webby |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | NETWORK INITIALS $200: A&E Arts & Entertainment |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | MIKHAILS $400 (Daily Double): In 2005 after disbanding his White Oak Dance Project, he established an arts center in New York City Baryshnikov |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | YOU'VE BEEN SCHOOLED! $600 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "many skills", it's an engineering school that teaches industrial arts & applied sciences a polytechnical school |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | THE CALIFORNIANS $800 (Daily Double): Yo! (As in Yosemite!) This bro established a gnarly photography dept. at the Cali School of Fine Arts in 1946 Ansel Adams |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $200: B.A., after 4 years of hard work & beer drinking Bachelor of Arts |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $400: A review of a 2012 show at this place, the Met for short, informed us that Degas looked like Jerry Seinfeld the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $800: Arts Beat reported on the craze for "Zou Bisou Bisou", a song featured in this TV show about advertising Mad Men |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $1200: nytimes.com posted an architectural rendering of this school's 2.5-mil.-square-foot expansion in Greenwich Village NYU |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $1600: Times reviewers sigh & musicians' unions fume over dance companies like Paul Taylor's using music presented this way on tape (or recorded) |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $2000: A 2011 review said the acoustics of this famous NYC hall turned a chorale's words into whooshes Carnegie Hall |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $200: In traditional productions of "Swan Lake", Odile's tutu is this color black |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $400: One of the three tenors, he taught elementary school before becoming an opera star (Luciano) Pavarotti |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $600: This statue at the Louvre may have originally held a shield & mirror; it's hard to know since she's "unarmed" the Venus de Milo |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $800: It's the musical work that contains the chorus heard here
"Hallelujah /
Hallelujah..." Handel's Messiah |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $1000: Icy-sounding name of the decorative band, often in low relief, that runs below the cornice of a building a frieze |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | BASIC BLACK $200: Like a high rank in martial arts, it's the name given to the rich farmlands of central Alabama a Black Belt |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CENTER FIELD $400: In Washington you'll find the 3 main theaters of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts facing this river the Potomac |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $400: Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $200: Robert Wagner was the mayor when work began on this 16-acre performing arts center Lincoln Center |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | U.S. COMMUNITIES $200: Hey, y'all! The Deep Ellum Arts Festival, not far from the Tom Landry Freeway, is a 3-day "Street Party" in this city Dallas |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | COLLEGE "M" $2,500 (Daily Double): Founded in 1800, this liberal arts college has the Adirondacks to the west & the Green Mountains to the east Middlebury |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | MARVEL-OUS $2000: His surgical career was cut short after an accident, so now he's "Master of the Mystic Arts" Doctor Strange |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $400: He & Paul Simon had their first hit under the names Tom & Jerry (Art) Garfunkel |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $800: Hey, hey, Ralphie boy--he was up to his knees in the sewers as Ed Norton on "The Honeymooners" (Art) Carney |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $1200: This big band leader was married 8 times, including nuptials with hotties Lana Turner & Ava Gardner Artie Shaw |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $1600: This "holy" Washington Redskins wide receiver was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008 (Art) Monk |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | GREAT ARTS $2000: This stop-motion animator created Gumby & Pokey (Art) Clokey |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | DAYLIGHT COME $1200: Daylight comes, & it's time for this mix of martial arts & exercise, whose name means "supreme ultimate fist" tai chi |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | WEBSITES $400: bullshido.net exposes frauds in these arts, such as ninjutsu & aikido martial arts |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BRUCE ALMIGHTY $1200: This icon of martial arts wrote the book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" Bruce Lee |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | A STICKY SITUATION $1000: Kids use this sticky pulped stuff with a hyphenated French name in arts & crafts projects papier-mâché |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $2000: As a prince, this Prussian embraced the arts & music; as king following his father, Frederick William, he waged war Frederick the Great |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | CONTROLLED "BURN" $600: When it opened its doors as a private liberal arts institution in 1859, it was called East Alabama Male College Auburn |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $1200: "Fight the Philistines" was Anthony Lewis' 1990 column defending federal funding of this aesthetic body the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $2000: This private liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y. was named for the wife of its founding donor Sarah Lawrence |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $400: Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos caused Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $800: As a boy, this star of films like "Fearless" & "Hero" was a martial arts champion Jet Li |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | WHAT A GODDESS $800: Hesiod mentioned the names of these 9 sister goddesses, patrons of particular arts & sciences the Muses |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | ACADEMIC DEGREES $200: If you're into acting or photography, you may want a B.F.A., which stands for this Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $200: Modernist jeweler Art Smith opened his first shop in this New York City "Village" in 1946 Greenwich Village |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $400: Arthur Rackham's illustrations of fairies adorn the 1906 book titled this character "in Kensington Gardens" Peter Pan |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $600: Art Kleinman's "Attitude" is done with oil paint, wax, & this type of drawing stick made from partially burned wood charcoal |
| #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 |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | THE ARTS $1000: Belgian Berthe Art was known for these 2-word paintings of inanimate objects such as flowers & fruits still life |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | AIRLINE CARRY ON NO-NOS $1000: No Bruce Lee moves--this martial arts weapon, 2 sticks joined by a chain, can't go in your carry-on nunchucks |
| #5969, aired 2010-07-22 | AT THE BUSINESS' WEBSITE $800: "It's in the game" at this gamemaker's site where you can get into the "community" of its Madden NFL 10 EA Sports (Electronic Arts accepted) |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | MUSEUMS $1000: New York City has many museums, like Columbus Circle's MAD, the Museum of Arts & this Design |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | ABBREV. $800: Step into the octagon & tell us the name of this activity, MMA mixed martial arts |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $2000: Movie in which Jean-Claude Van Damme wins a secret martial arts tournament Bloodsport |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | "CHOP!" $1600: Hiiiiiiiiii ya! It's a slang term for martial arts movies chop-socky |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | GOD BLESS YOU $1600: The creator god Vairacocha of these people of Peru traveled the world teaching man all the arts & sciences the Incas (Incans accepted) |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | ABBREV. $800: On a college degree:
MFA Master of Fine Arts |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: Appropriately, this martial arts master's voice is heard in "Kung Fu Panda", as the monkey Jackie Chan |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES $2000: "Don't be absent from your own life", Jessica Lange told seniors at this Bronxville, N.Y. liberal arts school Sarah Lawrence |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $400: Rocco Landesman, a producer of Broadway's "The Producers", was named to chair this federal arts organization the NEA |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $800: "Mucho Gustavo", said L.A. music lovers as 28-year-old conductor Gustavo Dudamel took over this orchestra the L.A. Philharmonic |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $1200: In London Oscar winner Rachel Weisz took on this iconic stage role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche DuBois |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $1600: Children in Belfast made a 22,500-square-foot artwork using this juvenile type of painting finger painting |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $2000: To honor the 400th anniv. of Hudson sailing to NYC from this Dutch city, Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" took the same trip Amsterdam |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | MARSHALL ARTS $200: This Marshall seen here was a groundbreaking attorney & judge Thurgood Marshall |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | MARSHALL ARTS $400: In 1831 Marshall Hall showed that these tiny blood vessels bring the blood into contact with the tissue capillaries |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | MARSHALL ARTS $600: VP under Wilson, Thomas Marshall said, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent" one of these a cigar |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | MARSHALL ARTS $1000: Marshall McLuhan summarized the influence of TV & computers with his aphorism "The medium is" this the message |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ALL THINGS JAPANESE $1600: This island invaded by U.S. troops in April 1945 has a long martial arts tradition & may be the birthplace of nunchaku Okinawa |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | MUSEUMS $800: State where you'll find the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture & the International UFO Museum & Research Center New Mexico |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $1600: Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David a Philistine |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | QUIZ BOWL $400: The "Silver Liberty Bowl", created by this man born in 1735, is in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Paul Revere |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | VIDEO GAMES $2000: Fight as Anderson Silva or Brock Lesnar in the 2009 "Undisputed" version of this mixed martial arts game UFC |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, CA.) Skylights to capture sun help give San Francisco's Digital Arts Center a gold LEED rating--that's short for Leadership in this and Environmental Design Energy |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | FOREIGN WORDS $800: Seattle has one of the oldest of these martial arts schools outside Japan dojo |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU $800: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar exchanged sky hooks for left hooks taking on this martial arts master in "Game of Death" Bruce Lee |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | "CENTER" FIELD $400: This NYC performing arts complex includes the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater & the Metropolitan Opera House the Lincoln Center |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | MARTIAL $2000: Royce Gracie won the first 2 of these, UFC for short, featuring masters of different martial arts Ultimate Fighting Championship |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Burning Man is an arts festival; the Running Man is a dance, as seen in his video for "U Can't Touch This" MC Hammer |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $400: Singers honored in 1999: Odetta, Lydia Mendoza, & her--show her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Aretha Franklin |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $800: In 1990 she & husband Hume Cronyn both received medals Jessica Tandy |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1200: This African-American choreographer's dance foundation won in 2001 Alvin Ailey |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1600: Among the 2008 honorees were Olivia de Havilland & this Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: George Strait, Tommy Tune & this children's author of the Ramona Quimby books were honored in 2003 Beverly Cleary |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | A NEW LINE OF BARBIES? $800: Barbie's off to Paris to attend a famous culinary arts school, founded in 1895, the next top chef, it's... Cordon Bleu Barbie |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MARY, MARY $1600: She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before settling in France in 1866 Mary Cassatt |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $400: Style that got its name from 1925's Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs art deco |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $200: The Times said of these thin young twins, "It isn't the cover of Vogue they seem to seek as much as the cover of Fortune" the Olsen Twins |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $400: nytimes.com's "Find a Show" section tells how to get tickets to "Avenue Q" or this masked man musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $600: From an artsbeat blog: The Vivian Girls, rockers from this NYC borough, are "really, really, really cute" Brooklyn |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The times headlined its 2007 review of this series' first episode "smoking, drinking, cheating and selling" Mad Men |
| #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 |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $1200: A mere dabbler wouldn't know that this 10-letter Italian word means "a lover of the arts" a dilettante |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Grand Central Terminal in New York.) Opened officially February 2nd, 1913, Grand Central Terminal was designed in this French-named style that allows for vast interior spaces Beaux Arts |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $400: Eyeball a Warhol or 2 at one of these run by Larry Gagosian, maybe on Madison Ave. or in Beverly Hills an art gallery |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $800: This Madrid-born tenor has also run a couple of opera companies Placido Domingo |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $1200: In 2008 Philippe de Montebello retired after 30 years directing this Fifth Ave. arts temple the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $2000: His artworks command prices of $400,000, & he was Oscar-nominated for directing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Julian) Schnabel |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this innovative theater & opera director is just 1 letter different from a late British comic actor Peter Sellars |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | WHEN YOU GO TO COLLEGE $400: You may earn a degree in liberal these; no, not politics, silly, but poli sci is often part of it arts |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls the grounds of Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, CA.) This director, the man behind Industrial Light & Magic, was also the primary conceptual designer for its Digital Arts Center, which is innovative in energy & water efficiency George Lucas |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | I AM LEGEND $2000: In Roman myth, she's the goddess of wisdom & of the arts & sciences Minerva |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $400: "Maria Stuarda" by Donizetti (libretto by Bardari) is this type of work opera |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $800: If you get the "pointe", Darci Kistler found her fame as one of these performers a ballerina |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $1200: "Luncheon of the Boating Party" was an impressive 1881 work by this Impressionist Renoir |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $1600: An architectural style is named for this French fine arts school that dropped architecture in 1968 the École des Beaux Arts |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | THE ARTS $2000: A 1974 movie tells of Benji; a 12th century Japanese scroll illustrates this "tale" by Lady Murasaki (The Tale of) Genji |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Used in martial arts, this hand weapon, 2 sticks joined by a cord or chain, is also called karate sticks nunchaku (or numchucks) |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | MOTHER'S DAY $800: A mom who pushes her child into the performing arts is called this type of mother, a synonym for "theater" a stage mother |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | '60s TV $1600: Martial arts star Bruce Lee played Kato, sidekick to this masked crimefighter, in an ABC series the Green Hornet |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | HIGH SCHOOL MUSICALS $2000: This 1980 film was set at the N.Y. High School for Performing Arts; a TV show, reality show & musical followed Fame |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | WHO'S RUNNING THIS OPERATION? $200: At Penn, the head of the College of Arts & Sciences has this title, with several associate ones scurrying around dean |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | WHEN PUSHKIN COMES TO SHOVE $400: The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is a leading tourist attraction in this capital Moscow |
| #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 |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | JUST SAY "NI" $600: A mercenary in feudal Japan trained in martial arts a ninja |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | PATRONS OF THE ARTS $400: 7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee & this card company Hallmark |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | PATRONS OF THE ARTS $500 (Daily Double): In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage & to this name the King's Men |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | PATRONS OF THE ARTS $800: Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, & his own work is kind of in that style Impressionist |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | PATRONS OF THE ARTS $1600: Luciano of this colors-ful Italian clothing company is a noted arts patron through a center called Fabrica Benetton |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | PATRONS OF THE ARTS $2000: As well as the Sistine Chapel, named for Sixtus, Pope Paul III got Michelangelo to fresco this chapel, named for himself the Pauline Chapel |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | ART ON EXHIBIT $1200: Saucy performance artist Karen Finley sued this government agency in the 1990s over restrictive funding the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | PRESIDENTIAL CREATIONS $200: This man whose wife was noted for her taste & elegance set up the President's Advisory Council on the Arts Kennedy |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $1600: Greene & Greene designed the Gamble House, a seminal work in this 3-word style inspired by William Morris Arts and Crafts |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | CONDUCTORS $1600: On CDs with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman conducts & plays this the violin |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $400: The Gobelins factory of France was famous for these wall hangings & began manufacturing them around 1600 tapestries |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $800: Beginning around 1790 in NYC, Duncan Phyfe was a leader in the artful manufacturing of this furniture |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $1200: Shakespeare was part owner of Blackfriars Theatre in London & this other one where many of his plays premiered the Globe |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $1600: Gainsborough's portrait of Jonathan Buttall, known as this, was an homage to Anthony van Dyck The Blue Boy |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $2000: Beginning around 447 B.C., this sculptor supervised the making of the sculptures on the Parthenon Phidias |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | "U" KNOW IT $1600: A patentable invention must be new, non-obvious, & this, like the "arts" the constitution encourages useful |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $200: Dumbledore's Army is a small group of Hogwarts students who learn to defend against the Dark Arts in this film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $1000: As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes Diaghilev |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | ART GAL-ERY $400: It follows "Cecilia" in the name of a noted female artist & precedes "Arts" in the French phrase for fine arts Beaux |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO $400: (James Lipton reads.) At 20, you went to St. Petersburg's Imperial School of Fine Arts, in 1907; what's your favorite Russian curse word? Chagall |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $200: This rap "clan" featuring Method Man & RZA took its name from a mythical martial arts sword The Wu-Tang Clan |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | CABLE CHANNELS $800: This film & arts network has hit the jackpot with reality shows like "Real Housewives of Orange County" & "Project Runway" Bravo |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $1000: This liberal arts college that went co-ed in 1969 is located in Poughkeepsie Vassar (College) |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | ABBREV. $1000: MFA is an abbreviation for this graduate degree Master of Fine Arts |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | INTRA-MURALS $800: The fresco seen here shows monks practicing martial arts in this country China |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $200: The Times told us the Stratford-on-Avon church where he was buried in 1616 needed $2 million in repairs William Shakespeare |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $400: Of a biopic on this author: "Once upon a time, Flopsy & Mopsy, there was a plucky proto-feminist..." Beatrix Potter |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $600: In 2006 Donald Hall, known for poems about his wife, Jane Kenyon, was lauded after his appointment as this (United States) Poet Laureate |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $800: The Times noted that "Office at Night", seen here, was one of many works by this artist on display at the Whitney (Edward) Hopper |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1000: This one-time defector's Hell's Kitchen Dance company got rave reviews as it started a world tour (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the arts, it's the profession of Cunningham, Robbins & Tharp choreographer |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | STATELY MUSEUMS $1600: The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, the Experience Music Project Washington |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | SYMBOLIC STOCKS $600: ERTS:
The game is on for this company if you're "Madden" got the "Need for Speed" Electronic Arts |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PRIMA DONNA $800: In 1994 this ex-disco queen sang with the Nashville Symphony at a city arts festival Donna Summer |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. $1200: The museum that's now the Smithsonian's Arts & Industries Bldg. was the site of this man's 1881 inaugural ball Garfield |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | D.C. SITES $200: This center includes restaurants, theaters, a concert hall & an opera house the Kennedy Center (for the Performing Arts) |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | NOVELS $1600: In the Literary Arts stamp series, the vessel behind this writer recalls her famous novel "Ship of Fools" (Katherine Anne) Porter |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: It's the oven or furnace in which pottery is fired a kiln |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: A mosaic needs this mortar between the pieces, just like in a tiled bathroom grout |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARTS & CRAFTS $600: In this craft, you may use corn husks for the core & raffia for the binder basket weaving |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARTS & CRAFTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue while holding onto a draftsman's tool) The name of this object used by draftsmen to create a pattern also means a preset document into which you plug new information a template |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1000: The name of this knotty craft comes from a word that means "embroidered veil" macramé |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | BRIDGES $800: Paris' first iron bridge, the Pont des Arts, was for these, not cars pedestrians |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | PUT OUT THE CHINA $800: Wushu is the Chinese word for martial arts; this term more familiar to TV watchers means any acquired skill kung fu |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | LABOR $400: NEA stands for National Endowment for the Arts, or for this union representing teachers the National Education Association |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | MARTIAL ARTS $200: Judo contestants don't wear shoes & socks, & the color of these changes as they gain expertise belts |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | MARTIAL ARTS $400: A seito is a student; a sensei is one of these a teacher |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | MARTIAL ARTS $600: Used in kendo, the shinai is a sword made of this plant bamboo |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | MARTIAL ARTS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco, CA.) In a movie title, Jackie Chan has played a master of this style of martial arts, which uses an unpredictable flowing style drunken |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | MARTIAL ARTS $1000: This Japanese art translated as "way of harmony of the spirit" uses opponents' energy against them aikido |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | TAIPEI PERSONALITY $400: Before directing hits like "Brokeback Mountain", he studied theater at Taipei's Academy of Arts Ang Lee |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $400: Actress Jessica Tandy received the medal the same year as her husband, this fellow actor in the film "Cocoon" Hume Cronyn |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $800: As Brancusi's assistant, Isamu Noguchi mastered this art form on display at a Queens museum named for him sculpture |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $1200: This widely recorded soprano was chosen by Ira Gershwin for the lead role in a 1952 revival of "Porgy and Bess" Leontyne Price |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $1600: This Texas playwright also wrote the screenplays for "To Kill a Mockingbird" & "Tender Mercies" Horton Foote |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $2000: Some distinguished figures in this field include Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown architecture |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | WELCOME TO DENVER $600: The Kirkland Museum has examples of many decorative styles including this one, named for two types of handiwork arts & crafts |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $400: Computer analysis of newly found paintings said the drip patterns weren't consistent with this artist's previous works Pollock |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $800: The Times called this Fox sitcom, a critical darling, "an alliance between 'The Royal Tenenbaums' & 'The Simpsons'" Arrested Development |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1200: The Times said a 2005 production of this Shaw play about a career woman was "intriguingly nuanced drama" Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1600: In 2006 Angela Gheorghiu had a "supercharged star turn" as Violetta in this Verdi opera La Traviata |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $2000: "The Seven", a hip-hop reworking of his "Seven Against Thebes", is a "risky adventure in aesthetic cross-pollination" Aeschylus |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | FITNESS $2000: Capoeira, developed in this country in the 1500s, has become a popular dance & martial arts class Brazil |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $1600: "Transcendental" college in Boston devoted exclusively to the study of communication & performing arts Emerson |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | LANGUAGE ARTS $400: Shalom means "peace" in this language Hebrew |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | LANGUAGE ARTS $800: Xiang & Minbei are dialects of this language Chinese |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | LANGUAGE ARTS $1200: Switzerland has these 3 official languages German, French & Italian |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | LANGUAGE ARTS $1600: Romaji is a system of writing this Asian language using Romanized letters Japanese |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | LANGUAGE ARTS $2000: Castilian is the official standard form of this Romance language Spanish |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | I NEED A VACATION $600: I'll head to this country, the No. 5 destination, so my son can study Wushu martial arts and I can drink pijiu, its beer China |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | GRADUATE SCHOOL $1600: Portraitist Chuck Close earned a "Master of" these from Yale in 1964; glass master Dale Chihuly, from RISD in 1968 fine arts |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CHICAGO $2000: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" includes a visit to this museum, with a peek at its famous Seurat The Art Institute of Chicago |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS $6,000 (Daily Double): Founded in 1939, this city's Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case Cincinnati |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | HOUR OF THE "WOLF" $1200: This park for the performing arts is found in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. Wolf Trap |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | THE BOOK NOOK $200: To get your mitts on "Andean folk knits", head for this library section, a word often paired with "arts" crafts |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | PARDON MY ADJECTIVE $600: "Game of Death" fans know the adjective "chopsocky" refers to this kind of action film martial arts |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $400: Richard Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park" series is named for an area in this beach city near L.A. Santa Monica |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $800: In houses like the one seen here, Richard Morris Hunt brought America this style, from the French for "fine art" Beaux Arts |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $1600: In 2005 the woman in Robert Doisneau's photo called this "at the Hotel de Ville" sold her copy for $242,000 The Kiss |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $2,000 (Daily Double): Around 1912 Robert Delaunay brought color to the forefront of this -ism, thereby creating Orphism Cubism |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $2000: This architect partnered with Rudolph Schindler & pioneered steel-frame housing with the Lovell House, seen here (Richard) Neutra |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | DESIGN CLASSICS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Stickley furniture seen here is from this movement, whose three-word name comes from the union of aesthetics & handiwork Arts & Crafts |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: The novel "Moby-Dick" calls this decorative art "skrimshander" scrimshaw |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew spins a clay pot on a wheel in Greece.) Keramos, a Greek word for "clay", gave us this English word for pottery ceramics |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1200: This ornamental covering on the back of an upholstered couch was meant to protect against a specific hair oil an antimacassar |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1600: From the French for partition, it's enamel work in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands cloisonné |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $2000: This iridescent substance used as an inlay on the lacquered box seen here is also called mother-of-pearl nacre |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $200: At the theatre it's the sole job of--Line!--following the script & reminding actors what to say next prompter |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $400: Elmer Booze has gained (moderate) fame doing this for piano virtuosos as they perform turn pages |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $600: In 1999 & 2000 some of these employees at the Natl. Gallery sat for David Hockney; sitting might have felt odd to them security guards |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $800: William Hamilton is the consulting one of these muscle & joint doctors to American Ballet Theatre orthopedist |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $1000: 13-letter word for the "super" job of nonspeaking actor onstage in an opera supernumerary |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | CABLE NETWORKING $1600: Aesthetes like to "Breakfast with the Arts" here A&E |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | CITIES BY LANDMARK $1000: Centennial Olympic Park,
Woodruff Arts Center Atlanta |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | REMEMBERING ARTHUR MILLER $2000: Miller is seen here receiving this highest honor the United States gives for a life of creativity the National Medal of Arts |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | G.I. JOE $1000: In the '70s Joe took up martial arts & learned this "grip" kung fu |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $200: The son of a surgeon, this director brought some gore to the screen in "Carrie" & "Scarface" (Brian) De Palma |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $400: Seen here, the work of Tamara de Lempicka typifies this art style art deco |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $600: Now in his 70s, he designed Laura Bush's 2005 Inauguration Day wear Oscar de la Renta |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $800: His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is referred to as a tone poem Debussy |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | "DE" ARTS $1000: In 1964 LBJ gave this abstract expressionist the Medal of Freedom Willem de Kooning |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | TEENS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it) Rodin |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | WRITE ON, GIRL! $600: Mine eyes have seen the glory of her being the first woman in the American Academy of Arts & Letters Julia Ward Howe |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by an alcove with a fireplace in Oak Park, Chicago, IL.) It's the word for a cozy fireside nook; Frank Lloyd Wright designed this one with an Arts-and-Crafts influence the inglenook |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $200: If you want a life in the theatre, perhaps you should get a B.F.A. degree, B.F.A. standing for this Bachelor's of Fine Arts |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Also a geographic term, to quilters it's the equivalent of a picture frame a border |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Patton knew nobody "ever won a war by" doing this craft, the tinting of fabrics, "for his country" dyeing |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $600: This type of picture takes its name from a medieval term for decorations of shrines to the muses a mosaic |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $800: Make your own Johnny Gilbert T-shirt using this artistic process where ink is forced through stretched fabric silkscreening |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1000: It's the word for the alloy that's heated to join the lead strips surrounding pieces of stained glass solder |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | NAMED AFTER JFK $200: Opened in 1971, the JFK Center for the Performing Arts stretches along this river the Potomac River |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | GIVE US "Z" ANSWER!!! $2,200 (Daily Double): It's home to the Croatian Academy of Arts & Sciences Zagreb |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $800: Hippocrates called this "the most distinguished of all the arts" but "by far the least esteemed" medicine |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | "ANT" INFESTATION $1600: From the Latin for "delight", this is someone who takes delight in dabbling in the arts dilettante |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | CAPITAL CITY MUSEUMS $1600: The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Opened in 1917, the Museum of Fine Arts in this city was built in the Pueblo Revival style Santa Fe |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | IT'S A GROUP THING $1200: These 9 sister goddesses, the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne, presided over various arts the Muses |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | TV NETWORK ABBREV. $2000: Learn about the lives of your favorite stars:
A&E Arts & Entertainment |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | YOU BETTER KNOW SOME SCIENCE $400: For the promotion of the mechanical arts, the Franklin Institute was chartered in this city in 1824 Philadelphia |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: Poet Dana Gioia, the first in his family to go to college, heads this organization, the NEA the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | "W"HERE'S THAT? $2000: Little Red Riding Hood might be afraid to visit this Virginia park devoted to the performing arts Wolf Trap |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | CRACK OPEN A U.S. HISTORY BOOK $600: The National Endowment for the Arts & the Truth in Packaging Act were part of LBJ's plan for a "Great" this Society |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: In 1929 he became director of the Central School of Fine Arts in Mexico Diego Rivera |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | "R"-TISTS $800: This portrait painter was the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | "R"-TISTS $6,400 (Daily Double): The 27-panel fresco "Detroit Industry" in the Detroit institute of Arts is by this noted muralist Diego Rivera |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: The Society of Arts & Sciences named its short story award after this "Gift of the Magi" author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | ABBREV. $800: An advanced degree:
MFA master of fine arts |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MYTH AMERICA $1200: In Aztec myths, this creator god also gives man corn & the arts Quetzalcoatl |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: This material is shaped by hand or on a wheel & baked in an oven to make pottery clay |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: If you build one of these objects popular at Latin American parties, fill it with candy & then break it open with a stick! a piñata |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | ARTS & CRAFTS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew models the colors.) For fun, you can take one of Dad's old t-shirts & turn it into this style of colorful shirt tie-dye |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | ARTS & CRAFTS $800: Origami, the art of folding paper into things like animals, means "folding paper" in this Asian language Japanese |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1000: With drinking straws & some staples, you too can build this kind of dome, seen here a geodesic dome |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | KISS-AND-TELL $1000: In 2001 this martial arts master was back in action in "Kiss of the Dragon" Jet Li |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | B WHERE $400: The Bloombury District of this city is home to an arts & literary crowd London |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $400: This South Carolina city that gave us a popular dance in the 1920s was the site of the first opera in America in 1735 Charleston |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $800: In 1750 theater was banned in this then-colonial capital as a form of Mass. entertainment Boston |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $1200: Some of the earliest surviving colonial portraits are of Richard & Increase, members of this family the Mathers |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $1600: Meaning "tobacco peddler", it's the title of a 1708 Ebenezer Cooke poem & a 1960 John Barth novel about Cooke The Sot-Weed Factor |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | COLONIAL ARTS $2000: James Alexander, whose doggerel contributed to this publisher's arrest, helped defend him as a lawyer Zenger |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $400: The Times' article "Architecture's Dust-Up in the Desert" analyzed the school of architecture named for him Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $800: The Times' review of this 2001 French film was "Little Miss Sunshine as Urban Sprite" Amelie |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The Met's 2002 production of this opera "calls for 346 people onstage along with a horse (Napoleon's)" War and Peace |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $1600: The Times marked the Centennial of this poet who wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother" Langston Hughes |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $2000: This "famed... company from St. Petersburg is now at the mercy of... ballet masters of the world", the Times lamented the Kirov |
| #4053, aired 2002-03-27 | ENDS IN "A" $1000: From the Japanese for a person who perseveres, it's a martial arts expert in espionage & assassinations ninja |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | D.C. ABBR. $200: You'll be well endowed if you receive a grant from the NEA, the National Endowment for these the Arts |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | ARTS OF THE PEER $400: He finished his "Idylls of the King" the year after he was made a baron Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | ARTS OF THE PEER $800: Henry V onscreen in 1946, he was made a life peer in 1970 Olivier |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | SEÑOR $800: This artist's father was an instructor at the School of Fine Arts in Malaga in the late 1870s Picasso |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THAT '70s SHOW $200: On this series as Kwai Chang Caine David Carradine showed off his martial arts skills Kung Fu |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | AWARD PRESENTERS $200: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences the Grammys |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | AWARD PRESENTERS $500: The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences the Webby Awards |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | I GOT AN "A"! $200: In sports or in the arts, it's the opposite of "professional" amateur |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | WHERE AM I? $200: The Muzej za umjetnost i obrt in Zagreb, Croatia sounded exotic until I found out it was the museum of arts & these crafts |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $600: To earn the communication arts badge, why not learn this raised writing system for the blind Braille |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: Punch a wick hole in the bottom of an empty milk carton, melt some wax & you're on your way to making this a candle |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Go dotty & make a pair of these out of clay; the opposite sides should add up to 7 dice |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: String together one of these Hawaiian necklaces using construction paper flowers, straws & yarn a lei |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: With a brown lunch bag, white yarn for the top stitching & a little imagination, you can make one of these; hike! a football |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | ARTS & CRAFTS $500: You can shake things up after making this wintry item using a baby food jar, water, sparkles & tiny figures a snow globe |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | CHARITY BEGINS WITH BEER $400: Money from the golden nectar was used to start this women's liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York Vassar |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | DANCES $400: It's a lively Spanish-American dance, or a "Grim" computer game from Lucas Arts fandango |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | ARCHITECTS $300: Richard Hunt, the first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, designed this statue's stone-&-concrete pedestal the Statue of Liberty |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $100: Hooray! Dan Castellaneta's wild 1-man stage show named for this artist doesn't have "a single ear reference" Vincent Van Gogh |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: The 100th birthday of this New England city's Symphony Hall inspired the line "A plain home with a sense of place" Boston |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $300: "As if St. Thomas Church were not making enough good music with its own choir", this abbey's choir visited in Oct. 2000 Westminster Abbey |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: The Chamber Music Society of this "Center" put the Times "in a millennial mood" with a "Thousand Years of Love" Lincoln Center |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $500: Gore Vidal told the Times that JFK gave him one of the lines he used in this 1960 play, revived on Broadway in 2000 "The Best Man" |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $200: In 1992 this columnist won a lawsuit which held that his idea was the basis for the movie "Coming to America" Art Buchwald |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $400: This game show host didn't put guests in "Jeopardy!" as an usher at David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon's wedding Art Fleming |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $800 (Daily Double): Born in 1895, he made the diagram seen here part of American culture
(dance steps) Arthur Murray |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $800: In 1992 this Washington Redskin became the NFL's career receptions leader with his 820th catch Art Monk |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | FAMOUS ARTS $1000: He's the jazz pianist heard here Art Tatum |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | IN THE BUTTE $300: "Southwest Montana's Premier Performing Arts Center" has this "maternal" name of a vein of ore Mother Lode Theatre |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: Save these from your popsicles & you can make a picture frame the sticks |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: You can fashion pot holders, pillows & more by weaving pieces of yarn on one of these special frames loom |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: Instead of using bits of colored tiles or stones to make this type of picture, try dried beans mosaic |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Knot a plain T-shirt with rubber bands & dip in different colors to make this type of psychedelic shirt tie-dye |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | ARTS & CRAFTS $500: It's the Japanese name for the craft that produced the figures seen here origami |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $200: This structure is a traditional part of state capitols to represent the unity of government dome |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $400: Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned to collecting silver photography |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $600: This city's renaissance artists, like Titian & Giorgione, emphasized color more than the Florentines Venice |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $800: The modern dance pioneer seen here--she died in a bizarre shawl, not scarf, accident: Isadora Duncan |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $1000: The name of this plaster used in the 18th c. to make faux marble refers to rough exterior coating stucco |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | "B"-'52s $1000: This historian, elected for life to the National Institute of Arts & Letters in '52, published a vast new book in 2000 Jacques Barzon |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | AROUND THE USA $100: This famous frog cut the ribbon for the official opening of Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts Kermit the Frog |
| #3678, aired 2000-09-06 | E! $200: E!'s "Mysteries & Scandals" show about this martial arts star featured the intro seen here:
"Mystery... Rumors... You've come to the right place! Stay tuned for the tale of 'The Little Dragon'..." Bruce Lee |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE $1000: The AFI was established in 1967 by this government body that's had its funding troubles National Endowment for the Arts |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | THE 1490s $1000: This "Magnificent" tyrant of Florence & patron of the arts died in April 1492 Lorenzo de Medici |
| #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) |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | UNUSUAL WEAPONS $1000: This martial arts weapon seen here is banned in some areas nunchucks |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | 2-LETTER TERMS $1000: It's the pants-&-jacket outfit worn when doing martial arts gi |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | U.S.A. $400: Kids love to explore the Exploratorium inside this Northern California city's Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | NEW OLYMPIC SPORTS $500: This new Olympic martial arts sport was founded in the 1950s by General Choi Hong Hi Taekwondo |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | SEATTLE $300: In the early '60s this martial arts master waited tables at Seattle's Ruby Chow's Restaurant Bruce Lee |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $300: H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College is a liberal arts school affiliated with this New Orleans school Tulane |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | U.S. TRAVEL $100: The Museum of Fine Arts in this Massachusetts capital is noted for its Asiatic collection Boston |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ARTS $200: Paul Simon has said that he regrets letting this man sing lead on "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Art Garfunkel |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ARTS $400: Famed for playing a sewer worker on TV, he originated the role of Felix Unger on Broadway Art Carney |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ARTS $600: His book "Kids Say the Darndest Things!" topped the nonfiction bestsellers list for 2 years Art Linkletter |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ARTS $800: (Hi, I'm Art Alexakis of the rock band Everclear) This American jazz drummer formed the Jazz Messengers & was a pioneer in the bebop movement Art Blakey |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ARTS $1000: He wrote & illustrated the graphic novel "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" Art Spiegelman |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | COLOR MY WORLD $100: Usually, the highest rank in the martial arts of judo & karate is this color belt Black belt |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | THE MOVIES $200: It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Twin Dragons" Jackie Chan |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | THE MOVIES $300: It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Double Impact" Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: You'll find this city's Museum of Moroccan Arts inside a former royal palace Rabat |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $200: Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully brought this French country dance to Louis XIV's court Minuet |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $400: Then the largest church in the Christian world, this basilica was dedicated in 1626 St. Peter's Basilica |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $800: This Dutch master was barely 22 in 1628 when he started teaching in Leiden Rembrandt |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a museum, its Grande Galerie was completed by Henri IV around 1606 the Louvre |
| #3451, aired 1999-09-13 | 17th CENTURY ARTS $1000: This Dutch artist turned out "The Jolly Toper" & "The Laughing Cavalier" Frans Hals |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100 (Daily Double): Its name is French, but it's just ordinary newspaper mixed with paste papier-mâché |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: This paint which bears the name of a part of the hand is sometimes made with tempera paint & liquid starch fingerpaint |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: This material can be shaped by hand & fired in a kiln to make pottery clay |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | ARTS & CRAFTS $800: Summer campers weave plastic threads to make these items, often used as keychains lanyard |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1000: Nylon fishing line & a wooden yard stick can be used to make the strings & control for this type of puppet a marionette |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | BIG SCREEN BADDIES $800: A perennial good guy now, in Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" this American TV star played a martial arts villain Chuck Norris |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | ABBREV. $200: To a graduating college student:
B.A. Bachelor of Arts |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | FILE UNDER "H" $1000: '50s TV puppet that's the subject of a 1999 custody battle between the D.I.A. & its owner's heirs Howdy Doody |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | VOCABULARY $1,300 (Daily Double): This antonym of pacifistic often precedes arts & law Martial |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: As a teenager this dictator tried to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but failed twice Adolf Hitler |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | PAUL REVERE $400: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has an impressive collection of Revere's work in this metal silver |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This "Thinker" sculptor was denied admission to the School of Fine Arts in Paris 3 times Auguste Rodin |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | NAME THAT COUNTRY $200: Alpacas are bred for wool there; Singani is a favorite drink; the National Museum of Arts is in La Paz Bolivia |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | ART & ARTISTS $100: This "American Gothic" artist was an asst. professor of fine arts at the Univ. of Iowa in 1934 Grant Wood |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | GREAT BRITS $600: In 1768 this "Blue Boy" painter was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts Thomas Gainsborough |
| #3176, aired 1998-05-25 | WIRED FOR CABLE $500: Often compared to PBS, this cable network's original movies include "Jane Eyre" & "Emma" Arts & Entertainment |
| #3167, aired 1998-05-12 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $100: The humanities are part of this, a 2-word term used to describe some colleges Liberal Arts |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | STRAIGHT "A"s $1000: In "Paradise Regained", Milton called this European capital the "Mother of arts and eloquence" Athens |
| #3156, aired 1998-04-27 | ALEXANDER THE GREAT $1,500 (Daily Double): William Ivey was nominated to replace this woman as head of the National Endowment for the Arts Jane Alexander |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | WHERE ARE WE? $400: The Red Dog Saloon,
Sealaska Cultural Arts Park,
The Alaska State Museum Juneau |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $200: This dance from the south of Spain comes in 2 styles; the serious jondo & the lighter chico the Flamenco |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $400: Benvenuto Cellini's most famous surviving work is a gold cellar for this seasoning salt |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $600: The melodic instrument of this country's native people is the didjeridu Australia |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $800: In 1634 this artist married the wealthy Saskia Van Uylenburgh & used her as a model Rembrandt |
| #3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $1000: This Bauhaus founder became a U.S. citizen in 1944 & taught architecture at Harvard Walter Gropius |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | HIE WE TO YON RENAISSANCE FAIRE $1000: The folk who love & work at faires may well belong to the SCA, being the Society for Creative this Anachronism |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | the small screen $500: This 1980 film about a high school for the performing arts has inspired 2 TV series Fame |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $400: Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, was the mother of these 9 goddesses of the arts Muses |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | ART & ARTISTS $600: Out of favor with the leftists in Mexico, he created murals in the U.S., like one in the Detroit Inst. of Arts Diego Rivera |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $200: In 1996 the Screen Actors Guild chose this "Murder, She Wrote" star for a lifetime achievement award Angela Lansbury |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $400: Recently on tour, "Tharp!" is a program of 3 dances choreographed by this woman Twyla Tharp |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $600: She still has "The Look" & in 1996 showed it off as Barbra Streisand's mom in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" Lauren Bacall |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In the 1920s, her home at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris was a gathering place for other writers & artists Gertrude Stein |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $1000: This playwright's "The Sisters Rosensweig" opened off-Broadway in 1992 Wendy Wasserstein |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | SEE THE U.S.A. $500: Tennessee Williams lived in this Florida city for decades, & a fine arts center there is named for him Key West |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: In 1505 this Protestant reformer earned a master of arts degree from the University of Erfurt Martin Luther |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | FAMOUS PROFESSORS $200: He taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts while developing his bacteria-killing process for drinks like milk Louis Pasteur |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | FAMOUS PROFESSORS $1000: The University of the Arts in Philadelphia is home to this author of "Sexual Personae" Camille Paglia |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSEUMS $300: This city's art museum in Forest Park was the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1904 World's Fair St. Louis |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: In the 1800s decorative trays were often made from this molded, pulped paper substance Papier-mache |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: This opaque white glass is named for its resemblance to a certain dairy product Milk glass |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Nymph motifs & whiplash curves are characteristic of this "new art" style popular around 1900 art nouveau |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: Punto alla rosa, or rose point, is a flowery type of this delicate openwork fabric Lace |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: Gustav Stickley was known for designing mission style furniture, which was usually made of this hardwood Oak |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $500: This "Battle Hymn of the Republic" author was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Letters Julia Ward Howe |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | MOVIE DEBUTS $600: Meg Tilly made her screen debut in a bit role in this film about NYC's High School for the Performing Arts Fame |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | TELEVISION $300: This cable network's "Biography" won a 1995 Cableace Award for best documentary series A&E (Arts & Entertainment Network) |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | STREETS $500: The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts & Columbia University are located on this NYC thoroughfare Broadway |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500 (Daily Double): Milwaukee's yearly Lakefront Festival of the Arts takes place at the War Memorial Center on this lake Lake Michigan |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: This form of needlework uses a hooked needle to pull the yarn through intertwined loops crochet |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Pyrography or pokerwork is the process of making designs in wood or leather this way burning it in |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: This design is pressed into paper by wires in the mold a watermark |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Used on watercolors, bookplates & documents, fraktur is a type of this stylized writing calligraphy |
| #2829, aired 1996-12-12 | ARTS & CRAFTS $500: On a cloisonne pin, this material is poured into hollows between wires soldered onto metal enamel |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1,500 (Daily Double): Minor White succeeded this man as director of photography at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947 Ansel Adams |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: A lover of the arts, this Prussian king played the flute & patronized many writers, including Voltaire Frederick the Great |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | ART & ARTISTS $700 (Daily Double): The current U.S. tour of treasures from this designer's workshops includes the object seen here: Fabergé |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $500: Founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, this music & arts festival has been an annual event in Charleston, S.C. since 1977 Spoleto |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POP & ROCK GROUPS $100: A performing arts center at Cal State Long Beach is named for the members of this "Close To You" duo The Carpenters |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: This style that followed Art Nouveau is also called Jazz Modern or Moderne Art Deco |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: Born in 1500, Benvenuto Cellini was this type of "Smith", perhaps the most famous of all time a goldsmith |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Point de gaze refers to a needlepoint type of this material made in Brussels lace |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: This Dutch town began making its famous tin-glazed blue & white earthenware around 1650 Delft |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: These "Jugs" resembling a seated, drinking figure in a 3-cornered hat were 1st made in the 18th c. a Toby Jug |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | FESTIVALS & CELEBRATIONS $600: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city Huntsville |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | GIFTS $400: Italy donated 3,700 tons of marble for this D.C. performing arts complex that opened in 1971 the Kennedy Center |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | MUSEUMS $200: In 1909 this city's Museum of Fine Arts moved from Copley Square to the Fenway district Boston |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | ACTRESSES $200: This "Basic Instinct" star was recently awarded France's Chevalier Dans L'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres Sharon Stone |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1987 Romare Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts by this U.S. president Ronald Reagan |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $200: This classic Christmas ballet contains the "Waltz Of The Flowers" The Nutcracker |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $400: These annual theatre awards are named for Antoinette Perry the Tonys |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $600: In 1995 Jerome Robbins turned this musical about teen street gangs into a dance work West Side Story |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $800: "The Slave of Duty" is an alternate title for this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about buccaneers The Pirates of Penzance |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $1000: In a Verdi opera this title slave turns out to be an Ethiopian princess Aida |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $500: An artist's inspiration may be called his this, in honor of the 9 goddesses of arts & learning the muses (his muse) |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1,600 (Daily Double): This infamous Italian patron of the arts was the illegitimate daughter of the future Pope Alexander VI Lucrezia Borgia |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | AWARDS $100: In 1985 this greeting card company won the National Medal of Arts for its contribution to American culture Hallmark |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Nashiti, a laquerware technique developed in this country, features flakes of gold leaf Japan |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: A popular type of 17th century woodwork was made to resemble this ocean vegetation seaweed |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: Valenciennes is one of the finest "pillow" types of this delicate openwork fabric lace |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: This country's Capodimonte porcelain factory was founded in 1743 on the grounds of a royal palace Italy |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: From the Latin filum (thread), & granum (grain), it's delicate ornamental work done with fine metal wire filigree |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $600: In the early '70s this sitarist taught at the California Institute of the Arts Ravi Shankar |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | MAGAZINES $500: Before Conde Nast revived it in 1983, this arts & culture magazine was defunct for nearly 50 years Vanity Fair |
| #2627, aired 1996-01-23 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Each of these daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne represented a branch of the arts & sciences Muses |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: Duke University's undergraduate college of arts & sciences shares its name with this Dublin college Trinity |
| #2603, aired 1995-12-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600 (Daily Double): The Juilliard School is located in this performing arts complex Lincoln Center |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | COMPOSERS $500: This American conductor wrote his "Mass" for the opening of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Leonard) Bernstein |
| #2594, aired 1995-12-07 | MODERN ART & ARTISTS $600: Piet Mondrian was one of the contributors to this Low Country's arts review "De Stijl" The Netherlands |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GRAPHIC ARTS $200: Term for the circle that encloses a comic strip character's dialogue a balloon |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GRAPHIC ARTS $400: Typesetters may use the Dvorak layout on one of these; it reduces their finger movements from Qwerty a keyboard |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GRAPHIC ARTS $600: This term refers to printing beyond the edges & trimming back the sheet; first aid isn't required bleeding |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GRAPHIC ARTS $800: Term for non-copyrighted pictures or drawings you can snip out & include in your own work clip art |
| #2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GRAPHIC ARTS $1000: A color separator produces four negatives: cyan, magenta, yellow & this color black |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Developed in the 1500s, the Mogul style of this country was greatly influenced by Persian art India |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: The Tarasco Indians, who live in this country's state of Michoacan, are noted for their pottery & weaving Mexico |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: This streamline geometrical style popular in the 1920s is also known as "art moderne" art deco |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: Rococo artist Francois Bouchet designed the "Loves of the Gods" series of these wall hangings in 1749 tapestries |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | MUSEUMS $500: In 1909 King Edward VII opened the new building of this London museum of decorative & fine arts Victoria & Albert Museum |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: It's the term for bone or ivory objects once carved by sailors and often decorated with whaling scenes scrimshaw |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $200: In 1993 a purported 1612 work by this playwright was found at the British Museum Library Shakespeare |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $400: Introduced in 1969 as the first rock opera, it became a Broadway musical in 1993 Tommy |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $600: In 1995 Keith Lockhart succeeded this man as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra (John) Williams |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $800: In 1992 he brought high fashion to the New Yorker as its first staff photographer Richard Avedon |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $1000: Nijinsky played the title puppet at the premiere of this Stravinsky ballet in 1911 Petrushka |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Inspiration may be called the Pierian Spring after a place sacred to these 9 goddesses of arts & learning the Muses |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: In the past mirror cases & dagger handles were often carved from this tusk material ivory |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: Germans called this "new art" style Jugendstil, after the art magazine Jugend, which means "youth" art nouveau |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Mechlin is a Flemish type of this delicate openwork fabric lace |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: As its name implies, it's the dominant background color of the porcelain known as famille jaune yellow |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: Known for his strikingly simple designs, Georg Jensen was a famous silversmith from this country Denmark |
| #2518, aired 1995-07-12 | MUSEUMS $500: The American Decorative Arts Tour is a feature of the Winterthur Museum near Wilmington in this state Delaware |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Cellini's only major surviving work as a goldsmith is a magnificent container for this seasoning salt |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: Moravians adorn their homes with 3-dimensional depictions of these heavenly bodies on the 1st Sunday of Advent stars |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: In the 1800s this religious sect became famous for making simple, austere furniture, especially chairs Shakers |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1,000 (Daily Double): A gem carving process that's the opposite of intaglio, or a kind of glassware that resembles it cameo |
| #2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: Muralist Richard Haas paints the exteriors of buildings in this "fool the eye" style trompe l'oeil |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: In the 1600s drinking tankards were often made of this tusk material ivory |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: The cloth of St. Gereon is thought to be the oldest occidental one of these wall hangings a tapestry |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: In the 1750s Battersea Enamelware was made at York House in the Battersea district of this city London |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: Highly prized for carving, the "mutton fat" type of this gemstone is uniformly white, not green jade |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: Dutch traders returning to Europe from Java introduced this dyeing process that uses wax batik |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | MUSEUMS $500: Objects by this Russian jeweler are on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fabergé |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: This Scottish capital's Festival Fringe is one of the world's biggest arts festivals Edinburgh |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | VIDEO GAMES $500: Tie Fighter from Lucas Arts is based on this film series Star Wars |
| #2468, aired 1995-05-03 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Mount Olympus was home to the gods & Mount Helicon was the haunt of these patronesses of the arts the Muses |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: This N.Y. liberal arts college is named for the wife of its founder, William Van Duzer Lawrence Sarah Lawrence |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MEMORIALS $500: This D.C. performing arts center was built as a memorial, using materials donated by many countries Kennedy Center |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | NYC LANDMARKS $300: The neighborhood where "West Side Story" was filmed was demolished for this performing arts complex Lincoln Center |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | BOBs & ROBERTs $500: He taught at NYC's High School of Performing Arts before forming his own ballet school & company Robert Joffrey |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | ARTISTS $800: In 1934 this "American Gothic" artist became a professor of fine arts at the University of Iowa Grant Wood |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | COMIC BOOKS $500: This late martial arts legend has his own title at Malibu Comics Bruce Lee |
| #2371, aired 1994-12-19 | FIRST LADIES $400: In 1933 she graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Liberal Arts Lady Bird Johnson |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: A popular Chippendale style of the 1750s was inspired by designs from this large Asian country China |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Point d'Angleterre is a lovely example of the bobbin or pillow type of this dainty fabric lace |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: "The Hunt of the Unicorn" is a famous example of the mille-fleur type of this wall hanging Tapestry |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: This sleek, elegant style of the 1920s is also known as jazz modern art deco |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: This English potter was noted for the black basaltes ware he developed around 1768 Josiah Wedgwood |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | PEOPLE $400: She's the 1st performer to head the National Endowment for the Arts since its inception in 1965 Jane Alexander |
| #2302, aired 1994-09-13 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $500: First Lady of "To Tell The Truth", I'm the chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts Kitty Carlisle |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Famed for its dancing & decorative arts, it's the most populous of Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands Bali |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: The practice of placing pebbles in cement to make durable floors led to this art form mosaic |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: A tatter is a person who makes the handmade type of this lace |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Wax is used to repel dye in this fabric-decorating art practiced on Java for centuries batik |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: Jeweler's son whose vases & lampshades have been called "The Epitome of Art Nouveau" Louis Comfort Tiffany |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | DECORATIVE ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Kind of pottery seen here, named for the European town in which it's made: Delft |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | EDUCATION $200: This college degree is abbreviated B.F.A. a Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| #2253, aired 1994-05-25 | ART $600: In 1986 the Detroit Inst. of Arts celebrated 2 centennials, its own & this Mexican muralist's (Diego) Rivera |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | COLLEGE POTPOURRI $200: In medieval times there were 7 of these "arts"; perhaps they didn't count conservative arts liberal arts |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | AWARDS $300: Juno Awards given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences are equivalent to these U.S. awards Grammys |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | ARTISTS $400: His "Gates of Hell" sculpture was commissioned in 1880 as the door for the Musee des Arts Decoratifs Rodin |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: This dynasty that ruled China between 1368 & 1644 is known for its bright porcelain the Ming Dynasty |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: One decorative technique used on this material is called blind tooling leather |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: In the 16th century the art of making clear crystal glass was discovered in this Italian city Venice |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: It's the process of decorating metal by using acid to bite patterns into the surface etching |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: The pillow type of this made in the town of Chantilly was usually black; white wasn't as common lace |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: You'll find the State Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts in this capital of Ukraine Kiev |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: This group of sisters who represent the arts taught the Sphinx its riddle the Muses |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | EDUCATION $400: Mistress of arts was a 19th century female equivalent of this degree earned by young men a bachelor of arts |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | IN THE NEWS $400: President Clinton appointed Jane Alexander chairman of the NEA, which stands for this the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $100: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in this capital city has an exceptional collection of Himalayan art Richmond |
| #2103, aired 1993-10-27 | WORLD FACTS $500: Kashmiri arts & crafts are on display in the Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar in this country India |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Ikenobo, the 1st school of flower arranging in this country, was founded in the 7th century Japan |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Coiling & this are the 2 basic methods of making baskets weaving |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: The "album" style of these bedcovers made at bees is often presented as an anniversary gift a quilt |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: The artist & decorator Charles Le Brun established the style named for this "Sun King" Louis XIV |
| #2098, aired 1993-10-20 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: A sculpted female figure used as a column, its name comes from Greek for "women of Karyai" caryatid |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $100: Types of these include dip, fountain & felt-tip pens |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $200: 1 of the 4 colors used in the four-color printing process (1 of) red (blue, yellow & black) |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $300: Drafting is also known as this type of "drawing" & it uses a special pencil mechanical drawing |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $400: This process of changing the details on a photograph can now be done on a computer touch-up (retouch) |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THE GRAPHIC ARTS $500: To crop is to trim the edge of a picture; this is to extend the picture to the edge of a page bleed |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | ART $600: In 1985 this city's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchased over 1,000 works by Thomas Eakins Philadelphia |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Chinese tapestries made of this fine fabric are called k'o-ssu silk |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: This sleek, streamlined style of the 1920s is also known as Art Moderne Art Deco |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | DECORATIVE ARTS $600: Point de gaze is a Belgian type of this delicate, ornamental openwork fabric lace |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: This section of New Orleans, also known as the Vieux Carre, is noted for its wrought-iron balconies the French Quarter |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | DECORATIVE ARTS $1000: In the 1700s this English potter known for his jasperware made copies of the Portland vase (Josiah) Wedgwood |
| #2013, aired 1993-05-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Tourist attractions in this capital include the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts & the Gum Dept. Store Moscow |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | CELEBRITY WOMEN $400: The University of Maryland's Performing Arts building is named for this woman, jazz' "First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | ART $600: Vasari called this Italian city "the nest and home of the arts" Florence |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | AMERICANA $500 (Daily Double): The Eisenhower Theater is part of this famed performing arts complex Kennedy Center |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: In 1984 Janet Jackson joined the cast of this series set at the High School for the Performing Arts Fame |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | LONDON $100: Royal Festival Hall is part of the South Bank Centre, an arts complex on the south bank of this river the Thames |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | THE ARTS $200: La Argentina, who popularized Spanish dancing in the 1920s, was born in this Argentine capital Buenos Aires |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | THE ARTS $400: The quadrille, which is similar to a square dance, requires this many couples four |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | THE ARTS $600: In 1855 some folks in the U.S. found his "Rigoletto" a lewd & licentious work (Giuseppe) Verdi |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | THE ARTS $800: A statue of the "motherland" honors heroes of the battle for this Soviet city in World War II Stalingrad |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | THE ARTS $1000: Michelangelo carved statues of Moses & 2 captives for this pope's tomb Julius II |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | ENGLAND $400: The Ashmolean museum houses this univ.'s collections of fine & applied arts, archaeology & numismatics Oxford |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | "V"OCABULARY $500: It's Italian for a master musician or a person skilled in the arts virtuoso |
| #1863, aired 1992-10-14 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: John Milton called it "The eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence" Athens |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | ART $600: Vasari called this Italian city the nest & home of the arts as Athens was of the sciences Florence |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | USA $500: A museum of African arts is housed in this abolitionist & orator's first Washington DC home Frederick Douglass |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | OLD RADIO $400: 1 of the 2 Arts who hosted "People Are Funny" (1 of) Art Linkletter (Art Baker) |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | ART $200: The Detroit Institute of Arts, founded in 1885, features murals by this Mexican artist (Diego) Rivera |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | AWARDS $500: In 1990 Pres. Bush awarded the National Medal of Arts to Jessica Tandy & this actor, her husband Hume Cronyn |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | MAGAZINES $100: This bimonthly published by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is named for its most prestigious award The Emmy |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | COLLEGE DEGREES $400: One of the most common master's degrees is this, abbreviated M.A. Master of the Arts |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $1000: In 1848 this astronomer became the 1st woman member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Maria Mitchell |
| #1647, aired 1991-10-29 | LEFTOVERS $1000: In 1988 President Reagan gave the National Medal of Arts to this "Humboldt's Gift" author Saul Bellow |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | "PRO"s & "CON"s $500: From the Latin for "to know thoroughly", it's a person with astute discrimination in the arts a connoisseur |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Tables shaped like this equine footwear were popular in the late 18th century a horseshoe |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: A 9 dragon screen carved in bas-relief can be seen in this once-taboo section of Beijing the Forbidden City |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: Alencon is a needlepoint type of this delicate openwork fabric lace |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: This American known for his art nouveau lamps developed an iridescent glass which he called "Favrile" (Louis Comfort) Tiffany |
| #1634, aired 1991-10-10 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: Historically, this was the material most commonly used for tapestries wool |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | THE SMITHSONIAN $800: The concert hall of this Smithsonian affiliate is home to the National Symphony Orchestra the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| #1622, aired 1991-09-24 | DESIGN $400: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, sells a replica of a thimble this silversmith made for his daughter Maria Paul Revere |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | U.S.A. $300: To see the National Museum of Women in the Arts, go to 13th St. & New York Ave. NW in this city Washington, D.C. |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | COLLEGE DEGREES $100: We hope this doesn't bemuse you, but a B.Mus. is this a bachelor of music |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | COLLEGE DEGREES $300: A drama major may earn a B.F.A., which stands for this a bachelor of fine arts |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | MAGAZINES $400: Film Comment is published bimonthly by the Film Society of this Manhattan performing arts complex Lincoln Center |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $100: Majolica pottery was named for this Spanish island Majorca |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Made originally in the 1700s, Valenciennes is a bobbin or pillow type of this delicate openwork fabric lace |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $300: The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, in this country, is famous for its Byzantine mosaics Italy |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $400: The hunt of this mythical animal is the subject of a series of 7 tapestries, woven c. 1500 the unicorn |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | DECORATIVE ARTS $500: Ralph Wood is credited with introducing these jugs, shaped like stout men, c. 1762 Toby jugs |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | MUSIC $1000: The first national park for the performing arts in the U.S. is this one near Washington, D.C. Wolf Trap |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | MUSIC $400: This late N.Y. Philharmonic director wrote a "Mass" to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Leonard Bernstein |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | MYTHOLOGY $200: Mnemosyne, who names means memory, was the mother of these goddesses of the arts & sciences the Muses |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | MUSEUMS $200: There's a Ukranian arts & crafts museum in Saskatoon in this Canadian province Saskatchewan |
| #1378, aired 1990-09-05 | MAGAZINES $200: A film about a performing arts high school, or a magazine whose name is a synonym for "celebrity" Fame |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | 1989 $800: 1 of 2 artists whose works led to a dispute between the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts & Senator Helms Mapplethorpe (or Andres Serrano) |
| #1362, aired 1990-07-03 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: Havard's Visual Arts Center is the only U.S. building completely designed by this French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier |
| #1353, aired 1990-06-20 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $200: In 1768 Sir Joshua Reynolds became the first pres. of this country's Royal Academy of Arts Great Britain (England) |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | BETTE DAVIS $200: She was the first woman president of this organization which gives out the Oscars AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | LIBRARIES $800: The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image is part of the library at this theater complex Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | ARCHITECTURE $200: From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city Paris |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | THEATER $200: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts overlooks this river Potomac |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | THEATER $600: Tolstoy's "Tzar Fyodor Ivanovich" was the 1st play produced at this Russian theater in 1898 Moscow Arts Theater |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | ART $1000: This nihilistic movement in the arts is named for a French word for hobby horse Dada/Dadaism |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | SHOPPING $200: Appropriately, this New England city's Museum of Fine Arts sells a book of recipes for tea parties Boston |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Pottery that's "thrown" is made on this piece of equipment a potter's wheel |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: The lead strips surrounding pieces of stained glass are joined with this kind of an "iron" a soldering iron |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $600: Similar to tie-dyeing, this process uses wax to resist the dye batik |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1000: Word for the framework, or skeleton, used as a support for clay, plaster or paper-mâché figures an armature |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $1,100 (Daily Double): Origami is the art of folding paper, & kirigami is the art of doing this to paper cutting |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | LEFTOVERS $100: The magazine of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, or its award The Emmy |
| #1161, aired 1989-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Washington, D.C. school is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the U.S. Gallaudet |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | "L.A." $400: Type of education broadly based on humanities with little emphasis on job training liberal arts |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: "I can knot," a person may respond when asked if he can do this craft of knotting cords macrame |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: Someone dropping whittlings on the floor most likely has these 2 things in his hands a knife & a piece of wood |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: The precise term for making these household items is latching; hooking has other meanings a rug |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Term for carving designs into leather, fitting up a factory with machinery or driving about tooling |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | ARTS & CRAFTS $500: A giant one of these with 8,288 panels in memory of AIDS victims toured the U.S. in 1988 a quilt |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: The A & M in Texas A & M & other land grant colleges stand for these two areas of study agriculture & mechanic arts |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | THE ARTS $100: The N.Y. Times reports this country's films often have an obligatory wet sari scene India |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | THE ARTS $200: In August 1988 the Getty Museum announced one of its prized pieces, the head of Achilles, was this fake |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | THE ARTS $300: In a special issue in 1988, Life magazine celebrated 150 years of this art photography |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | THE ARTS $400: In April 1988 this Dallas Cowboy took off his cleats to dance with the Ft. Worth Ballet Herschel Walker |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | THE ARTS $500: "The Lady with the Unicorn" is a medieval example of this textile art form tapestry |
| #1041, aired 1989-02-27 | PARIS $600: Founded in the 13th century, it's one of the liberal arts colleges in the University of Paris the Sorbonne |
| #1011, aired 1989-01-16 | THE WHITE HOUSE $400: In 1961 this First Lady had a fine arts committee restore rooms to their former appearance Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $100: 250 dance studios bearing his name can be found from Etobicoke, Canada to Crow's Nest, Australia Arthur Murray |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $200 (Daily Double): Singer whose only solo Top 10 hit was the following:
"I bruise you / You bruise me..." Art Gunfunkel |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $200: In 1976 President Ford awarded this piano virtuoso the Medal of Freedom, highest U.S. civilian honor Arthur Rubinstein |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $300: TV star born Bernice Frankel, she once said, "I've done everything except stag movies & rodeos" Bea Arthur |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | ARTS & ARTHURS $400: His 1968 victory at Forest Hills was called the most notable feat by a black man in tennis Arthur Ashe |
| #987, aired 1988-12-13 | SLANG $300: Genre of film you've seen if you've watched a "chopsocky" kung fu (martial arts) |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | STARTS WITH "K" $800: Pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts kitsch |
| #981, aired 1988-12-05 | GLASS $1000: The chandeliers in the grand foyer of the JFK Center for Performing Arts were made by this Swedish glass co. Orrefors |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | VIRGINIA $500: This concert site in Vienna, Virginia was the 1st in the Nat'l Park system dedicated to the performing arts Wolf Trap |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | U.S. CITIES $800: Illinois city that's home to the Jack Benny Center for the Arts Waukegan |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $600 (Daily Double): The only official Washington memorial to JFK the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | TV INITIALS $200: It's what the "A" & the "E" stand for in the A & E cable network arts & entertainment |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $400: From Old French "to know", it's one with discriminating tastes in matters of the arts connoisseur |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | AWARDS $100: For its contribution to American culture, this greeting card co. won a National Medal of Arts Hallmark |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $200: A friend of Byron, this famous romantic poet wrote an elegy for Byron's other friend John Keats Shelley |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $600: Adam's creation is in the Bible, but "The Creation of Adam" is here the Sistine Chapel |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $800: Profession of Sarah Siddons, subject of famed Reynolds & Gainsborough portraits an actress |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $1000: Key signature of Bach's well-known mass & Schubert's "unfinished" symphony B minor |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Richard Strauss tone poem which contains the following theme popularized in a 1968 movie: Also sprach Zarathustra |
| #831, aired 1988-03-28 | ARTISTS $400: In his late 70s, Marc Chagall completed 2 large murals for this theatre at Lincoln Center the Metropolitan Opera |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | ART $400: This Chinese dynasty which preceded the Manchu, or Ching was famous for its decorative arts Ming |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: A land-grant college must, by the Morrill Act of 1862, offer courses in the mechanical arts & this agriculture |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | HIGHER EDUCATION $200: While B.A. means bachelor of arts, B.F.A. means bachelor of this fine arts |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: From Greek "kolla", or glue, it's a picture made by gluing various objects onto a surface a collage |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: To fire clay, you don't give it a pink slip, but put it in this a kiln |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: Process in which you bind a piece of clothing, so that only certain parts of the article absorb color tie-dye |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Twining, coiling, and weaving are the three basic methods of making these baskets |
| #735, aired 1987-11-13 | ARTS & CRAFTS $500: From Latin "to close", this process closes off colored enamels from each other with thin metal strips cloisonné |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MARTIAL ARTS $100: The Japanese word for this martial art means "empty hand" karate |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MARTIAL ARTS $200: Martial artists attack with a shout to put maximum force into the blow & to do this intimidate (startle, frighten the opponent) |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MARTIAL ARTS $300: Though there is no universal system of belt ranking, this color usually denotes beginners white |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MARTIAL ARTS $400: Sho Kosugi entered, took revenge, & dominated a film series as this type of martial warrior ninja |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MARTIAL ARTS $500: The most graceful & gentle of the martial arts, it's practiced mainly as a means of meditation tai chi |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | ART $400: Style of design named for 1925 Paris exposition internationale des arts decoraties Art Deco |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | STARTS WITH "M" $800: Degree granted when you earn an MFA master of fine arts |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA $600: Started in 1768, its original subtitle was "A Dictionary of Arts & Sciences Compiled on a New Plan" Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: Full name of the organization which hands out the Oscars the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | ST. LOUIS $300: Founder of St. Louis Post-Dispatch who created awards for American journalism & arts Joseph Pulitzer |
| #519, aired 1986-12-04 | YOUNG STARS $200: In the 1986 sequel to this film, Ralph Macchio gets to try his martial arts in Japan The Karate Kid |
| #504, aired 1986-11-13 | UNIVERSITIES $600: The Morrill Act of 1862 provided land grants to support colleges that emphasized these "A & M" fields agriculture and mechanical (arts) |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | THE ARTS $200: Conducting only from memory, Eugene Ormandy led this city's orchestra from 1938-80 Philadelphia |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | THE ARTS $400: E.M. Forester used the title of a Walt Whitman poem for this 1924 novel "A Passage to India" |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | THE ARTS $800: Among the 9 paintings stolen in October 1985 "theft of the century" was his "Impression: Sunrise" Claude Monet |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | THE ARTS $900 (Daily Double): Architectural anomaly in common to the Pompidou Center in Paris & Beverly Center in Los Angeles escalators on the outside |
| #342, aired 1985-12-31 | "TABLE" TALK $500: Static scenes of 3-dimensional figures, the annual Laguna Arts Festival features them "vivant" a tableau vivant |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $100: Process of printing through a piece of fine cloth, usually silk silk screening |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $200: The art of molding paste & pulp, or a 1970 Dionne Warwick song papier-mâché |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $300: Named for an 18th century French finance minister, these black paper cutouts came to mean "cheap portraitures" silhouettes |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | ARTS & CRAFTS $400: Display case of memento-filled compartments, sound like sparring with imaginary opponents shadow box |
