#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | DOUBLE TALK GEOGRAPHY $1000: In this Asian country, the Phi Phi islands are an island group between Phuket & the Straits of Malacca Thailand |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The city of Daejeon is known as "South Korea's" this high-tech area near San Francisco Silicon Valley |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Draining much of the Nagano & Niigata prefectures, Japan's longest river, the Shinano, is found on this island Honshu |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: This river flows 2,700 miles from northwest China to the South China Sea & forms part of the border between Thailand & Laos the Mekong |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Now known as the Moluccas, these islands of Indonesia were so-named for the cloves & nutmeg cultivated there the Spice Islands |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Lahore is the capital of this Pakistani province next to India Punjab |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $800: One of the last "Parts Unknown" that Anthony Bourdain took us to was this remote Asian "Land of the Thunder Dragon" Bhutan |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Extending more than 1,500 miles, these mountains separate the Indian subcontinent from the remainder of Asia Himalayas |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Lebanon is tucked into what would be the coast of this country & separated from it by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains Syria |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: About 3/4 of Mongolia is made up of the forest, desert, mountain & grass types of these plains steppes |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Long, skinny Lake Balkhash extends over nearly 400 miles of the eastern part of this country Kazakhstan |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Laccadive Sea separates the Maldives & this other island country from the Asian mainland Sri Lanka |
#8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Bernard Cornwell's low-born soldier has his first adventure in "Sharpe's Tiger", which takes place in this Asian land during British rule India |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Himalayas border the southern end of the vast plateau of this Chinese region Tibet |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In 2018, with ISIS pushed out, rail service re-started from Fallujah to this capital city Baghdad |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Like Hong Kong in 1997, this special administrative region & gambling mecca was returned to China in 1999 Macau |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Vientiane, capital of this country, is found just northeast of the Mekong River Laos |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Camotes sea is a small sea lying between the islands of Cebu & Leyte in this republic the Philippines |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Japan's highest mountain, this dormant volcano rises to 12,300 feet Mt. Fuji |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1990 this nation invaded Kuwait, its smaller neighbor to the south, sparking the first Persian Gulf War Iraq |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Cebu & Leyte are just two of the more than 7,000 islands that make up this Asian nation the Philippines |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: According to the CIA World Factbook, these are the 2 largest cities in China by population Beijing and Shanghai |
#7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): 5 countries including Azerbaijan & Russia border this large "Sea" that's really a lake the Caspian Sea |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Temple of Buddha's Tooth is found in this island nation off India Sri Lanka |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Just east of the Caspian Sea is the city-sized Tengiz supergiant one of these, part of Kazakhstan & part of Chevron oil field |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: With 260 million, mostly Muslim, it's the world's fourth-most populous country Indonesia |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: The lawless border region where Laos, Myanmar & Thailand meet has this "shapely" 2-word nickname the Golden Triangle |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,500 (Daily Double): A large region of Turkey, also known as Asia Minor, is called this, from the Greek for "east" Anatolia |
#7628, aired 2017-11-08 | REDUNDANT GEOGRAPHY $800: East East (Asian country) East Timor |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Hokkaido & this Japanese island are separated by only about 12 miles across the Tsugaru Strait Honshu |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: About a mile off the mainland, Iran's Qeshm Island is the largest in this strait the Strait of Hormuz |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Mu Us Desert in north central China lies within a bend of this long river the Yellow River |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: You'll find Muscat, capital of this Arab country, on the gulf of this Arab country Oman |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This country's highest mountain, Kinabalu, rises 13,435 feet in the state of Sabah on Borneo Malaysia |
#7236, aired 2016-02-15 | GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE $2000: 2 nations share the 220-mile-wide delta of this Asian river the Ganges River |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Khongoryn Els, or "Singing Dunes", are a popular tourist destination in this Central Asian desert the Gobi |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This Russian lake, the world's deepest, plunges to 5,315 feet Lake Baikal |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: This sultanate borders Saudi Arabia in the Rub Al Khali Desert Oman |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings Colombo |
#6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This smallest Chinese province in area consists mostly of one island in the Gulf of Tonkin Hainan |
#6708, aired 2013-11-13 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, under Tigran the Great, this country's empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea; today, it's one of the smallest countries on the Asian mainland Armenia |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): This region in the northeast, also called Tungpei, or "the northeast", is a "candidate" for having China's best forests Manchuria |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This capital city lies on the Han River, about 22 miles east of Inchon Seoul |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This peninsula extends from the Isthmus of Kra in southern Thailand to the Johor Strait the Malay Peninsula |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This "gem" of a river becomes a 20-mile-wide estuary between Hong Kong & Macao the Pearl River |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This country forms the entire shoreline of the Sea of Marmara Turkey |
#5577, aired 2008-12-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Soc Trang & Can Tho are in the south of this Asian nation Vietnam |
#5074, aired 2006-10-05 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kabul is the capital of this Asian country Afghanistan |
#4933, aired 2006-02-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: This Asian nation seen here on the map has one of the world's largest populations India |
#4312, aired 2003-05-06 | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $800: It precedes "kush", which means "killer", in the name of a central Asian mountain range Hindu |
#4245, aired 2003-01-31 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: The British looted this Asian capital in 1860, bringing back a dog breed bearing its old name Beijing |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $200: In 1923 Angora, now called Ankara, succeeded this city as its country's capital Istanbul |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Island that's home to the picturesque Mount Fujiyama Honshu |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $600: These 2 largest rivers of the Asian portion of the Mideast flow to the Persian Gulf Tigris & Euphrates |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $800: During the rainy season the Mekong backs into the Tonle Sap, flooding the central part of this country Cambodia |
#2879, aired 1997-02-20 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 countries bordering Afghanistan whose names also end in "stan" (2 of 4) Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan |
#2569, aired 1995-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: At 27,824 feet, Mount Makalu in this Asian range is the fifth-highest mountain in the world the Himalayas |
#2518, aired 1995-07-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1965 Singapore separated from this Southeast Asian nation Malaysia |
#2264, aired 1994-06-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: With a population of over 3.5 million, Pusan is this Asian country's second- largest city South Korea |
#2123, aired 1993-11-24 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: This Canadian province proportionally has more people of Asian descent than any other British Columbia |
#2063, aired 1993-07-21 | GEOGRAPHY $600: The Bosporus Bridge links the European & Asian parts of this city Istanbul |
#1857, aired 1992-10-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The Nafud & Rub' al Khali deserts occupy this Asian peninsula Arabian |
#1684, aired 1991-12-19 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: This Asian desert became widely known through the writings of Marco Polo in the 13th century the Gobi |
#1193, aired 1989-11-08 | GEOGRAPHY $600: This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile Siberia |
#617, aired 1987-04-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The only Southeast Asian country with any part lying south of the Equator Indonesia |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: Asia Minor, the westernmost Asian peninsula, is almost wholly occupied by this country Turkey |
#287, aired 1985-10-15 | GEOGRAPHY $200: There are nearly 13,000 people per square mile in this S.E. Asian British colony Hong Kong |
#134, aired 1985-03-14 | GEOGRAPHY $100: Asian country with Seoul Korea |