| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $800: Fire up the engine of your mind & name this solid figure with equal & parallel circles at either end a cylinder |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $400: You know, in good faith or the real deal, like a rock star; with an "S" at the end, it means your credentials bona fides |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | MIDDLE X $600: Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score Scrabble word, y'all) claxons |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COVER ME $1600: The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice "Twist And Shout" |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $2000: "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep" is the balm at the end of this Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson novel Gilead |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FROM THE FRENCH $1000: The U & the E at the end of this adjective meaning indecent or off-color combine to make an "A" sound risqué |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE MISING LETER $1000: Lim (to draw or outline) N (limn) |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: Formed at the end of the last ice age, this sea includes the Gulf of Bothnia in the north & the Gulf of Gdansk in the south the Baltic Sea |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $2000: When Picard is assimilated by the Borg at the end of Season 3 of "Star Trek: TNG", this 1st officer gives the order to fire at him Riker |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: It's the station at the end of a transport line, like Grand Central terminal |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $800: "Blow of mercy" in French, it's a finishing blow at the end of combat a coup de grâce |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | PLAY SETTINGS $400: "The Crucible":
1692 in this Massachusetts city Salem |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $600: Half man, half pizza, this "Spaceballs" villain meets a tragic end when he eats himself Pizza the Hutt |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1200: At the end of "Little Caesar", this actor cries, "Mother of Mercy. Is this the end of Rico?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name a ray |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" this world is destroyed the Earth |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $200: 2003 film Richard Roeper deemed "one of the worst movies I've ever seen"; at least it didn't keep Ben & J.Lo from reuniting Gigli |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $200: These are found at the duller end of a pencil erasers |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | SWORDS $1200: With the same name as the raised part at the front of a saddle, it's the round knob at the end of a sword's hilt pommel |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $600: Good news! No longer need we say "shedding its leaves at the end of its growing season"--herewith a word for that deciduous |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | FROM "S" TO "Y" $400: At the end of an episode of "Drag Race", RuPaul tells one contestant, "Shantay, you stay" & the other, do this "away" sashay |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $200: Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi Kansas |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | THE "END" ZONE $200: This word refers to the supports placed at either end of your collection of Simon & Garfunkel biographies bookend |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $200: A baby bear &
a solid square cub & cube |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $400: A small rounded lump of something soft & a model of the Earth glob & globe |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $600: Expel saliva,
out of meanness spit & spite |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $800: A fable's lesson & the emotional outlook of a group, such as employees moral & morale |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $1000: Prudish &
optimal or top notch prim & prime |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $1200: By Gaston Leroux:
"At the Masked Ball", "The End of the Ghost's Love Story" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B":
an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE GULF OF MEXICO $2000: In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle Pensacola |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | LET'S GO GULFING $400: The Gulf of Venice & the Gulf of Trieste lie at the northern end of this sea the Adriatic |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $800: With a fruit at the end of its name, this city on the Bay of Bengal was a French possession even in the time of British India Pondicherry |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $400: Originally a term used with horses, it happens at the end of most balance beam routines a dismount |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $400: Charlton Heston realizes it's post-apocalypse now at the end of this 1968 movie Planet of the Apes |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DEALING WITH THE GOVERNMENT $200: This agency was born in 1865 to combat counterfeiting, as at the Civil War's end, nearly 1/3 of currency in circulation was fake the Secret Service |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TV $600: At the end of "Game of Thrones", this member of the Stark family becomes the ruler of Westeros Bran |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | GLOBETROTTING $2000: At the southeast end of Lake Titicaca in this country, the Gate of the Sun is a pre-Columbian arch carved from a single block of stone Bolivia |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $1200: Full of legal opinions, the "Digest" is part of Justinian's this, spelled with an "X" at the end in Latin Code |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $800: Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film The Godfather |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | "ODD"s & "END"s $400: A section at the end of a book, or a vestigial body part an appendix |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | POLITICS TALK $400: It's the group from one state at a convention; at the 2020 DNC, California's was 494 strong a delegation |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY $400: Broken chains lie at the statue's feet; an early plan had her hold broken shackles in her left hand as an homage to this practice's end slavery |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $2000: This 4-time 19th century prime minister & rival of Disraeli Gladstone |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | SHOPPING AT THE MALL $800: I propose we look at rings at this end-of-the-alphabet jewelers, "the diamond store" Zales |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $800: Inception is a synonym for this, also an event at the end of a college career commencement |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1600: From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it a brouhaha |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $600: You'll find the United Arab Emirates at the south end of this body of water the Persian Gulf |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1200: U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004 the Battle of Fallujah |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $1600: The star Polaris is at one end of it the Little Dipper |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Y'all, Rusty Wallace wanted to go fast at Talladega in 2004 in this state, & sure did; "We hit 228 at the end of the straightaway" Alabama |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | U.S. MUSEUMS $800: You can light candles in memory of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis at the end of your visit to this museum in Washington the Holocaust Memorial |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $1000: "I said hey babe, take" this Lou Reed title, add Ronnie Ross' killer sax solo at the end, & you've got yourself a classic tune "Take A Walk On The Wild Side" |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE MAP $800: Both Oxford & Cambridge have colleges named for this biblical Mary; only Cambridge's has an "E" at the end Magdalene |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | TREE ANATOMY $1000: The terminal type of this structure at the end of a twig is all about growth, not leafing or flowering a bud |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $800: The "P" is not silent at the end of this verb meaning to get back your losses to recoup |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $800: This flightless bird of New Zealand is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak a kiwi |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH X $1200: There's a big bovine at the end of this 6-letter word for a big clumsy man lummox |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $400: This legal trio--& lethal, at the end--can describe just one person who takes the law into their own hands judge, jury & executioner |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $400: At the end of this epic poem by Virgil, the hero kills Turnus in an act of vengeance the Aeneid |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | NUMERICAL TERMS $200: A 1930s ad for a razor gave us this phrase for the beginnings of a beard at the end of the day 5 o'clock shadow |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | HEGEL $1200: Hegel thought understanding comes at the end of a process: this bird "of Minerva spreads its wings only" at dusk the owl |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HISTORIC SECONDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The second one lasted from 218 to 201 B.C. & at the end, Rome was boss of the Mediterranean the Second Punic War |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $600: At the end of this Hitchcock film, Jimmy Stewart has not one but 2 broken legs Rear Window |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: A musical instrument is found at the end of this word that describes a hard-to-solve problem conundrum |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $200: Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?! "The Little Mermaid" |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $1000: The title eatery of this Douglas Adams book is Milliways, famed for its Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $400: At the end of the 7th c., Paolo Lucio Anafesto became, by tradition, Venice's 1st doge, Venetian Italian for this European noble title a duke |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $1200: At the end of the "Odyssey", suitors are vanquished, a family is reunited & the wine is poured on this island Ithaca |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $1200: The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave Charles Dickens |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | STICKS & STONES $600: Hickory is the traditional material for making these sporting sticks with a net at one end a lacrosse stick |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $1200: At the beginning of this Bronte novel, this orphaned title character is sent to the Lowood Institution, where she is mistreated Jane Eyre |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $1000: ATEOTD, in texting lingo, ATEOTD is short for this at the end of the day |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THE PACIFIC OCEAN $200: At its northern end, the Pacific Ocean meets the Arctic Ocean in this strait between the U.S. & Russia the Bering |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $200: In 2016 NASA detected this key-to-life element in a comet's tail, suggesting that comets may have brought it to Earth carbon |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Tonio the clown introduces this opera; at the end, the audience is told that the comedy is over Pagliacci |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | ARCHITECTS $800: The many Southern California designs of Paul R. Williams include the Beverly Wilshire Hotel at the end of this swanky drive Rodeo Drive |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ON THE MEDITERRANEAN $1200: At the far east end of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Iskenderun indents this country Turkey |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | HALLS OF FAME $1600: This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home Carrie Nation |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | LITERATURE $2000: At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot This Side of Paradise |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | THE ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES $1600: (Sarah presents the clue from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.) The museum's costume collection includes the magnificent dress here, featuring 10,000 silk flowers & weighing 30 pounds, worn by Florence Pugh as the May Queen at the end of this 2019 neo-pagan horror film set in Sweden Midsommar |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $2000: At Sengakuji Temple in Tokyo, visitors honor the 47 these, samurai who avenge their dead master & are buried there ronin |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | BOOZE IN BOOKS $1600: At the end of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge offers this mistreated employee a mulled drink called smoking bishop (Bob) Cratchit |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $2,400 (Daily Double): Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!" man, my son |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FRENCH COOKING TERMS $800: A silent "X" comes at the end of this sautéed vegetable mix seen here, thought to be named for a duke whose cook popularized it a mirepoix |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country Basra |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | RELIGION $1600: This religion at the end of the alphabet was founded by a Persian prophet & pre-dates Islam Zoroastrianism |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: Seen here are three random Americans of the 4.3 million born in this year at the tail end of the baby boom 1961 |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED $600: For a viper with a rattle at the end of its tail the Diamondbacks |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SYMPHONIES $2000: At the end of this Haydn symphony, the musicians say goodbye; they gradually stop playing & leave the stage the "Farewell" Symphony |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: This nation is at the furthest end of the Malay archipelago:
East ____ Timor |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | MOVIE LANDMARKS $800: This diabolical monument is the site of a close encounter at the end of a 1977 film Devils Tower |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | WORDS IN ELEMENTS $800: Si:
this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop an icon |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | THINGS IN LITERARY TITLES $400: At the end of a D.H. Lawrence novel, this title thing "arched indomitable, making great architecture of light and color" The Rainbow |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1200: This joint is found at the distal end of the radius the wrist |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $1000: At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion Paul Blart: Mall Cop |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | CANALS $800: Noted for its orchid gardens, the Pacific port of Balboa sits at the southern end of this canal (the) Panama Canal |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | DEM BONES $4,000 (Daily Double): Sesamoid bones are found in tendons; the best known is this bone at the lower end of the quadriceps tendon the patella |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | GENIUS: ARETHA $200: (Cynthia Erivo presents the clue.) At the end of a 1960s concert in Chicago, deejays Rodney Jones & Pervis Spann came onstage to literally crown Aretha with this famous nickname the Queen of Soul |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | AT THE BEACH $400: Much of the white sand on Hawaii's beaches comes from parrotfish, which excrete these indigestible reef animals as sand coral |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MARK YOUR CALENDARS $1600: Messidor was the tenth month of the calendar associated with this event at the end of the 18th century the French Revolution |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EUROPEAN PENINSULAS $2000: Schleswig & Holstein in northern Germany are at the southern end of this peninsula Jutland |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | PODCASTS $200: At the end of their 2020 Archewell Holiday podcast, they got little Archie to wish royal fans a "Happy New Year" Meghan & Harry |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $1600: Gov. George Wallace protested the court-ordered end of racial segregation at this school in 1963 the University of Alabama |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $800: At the eastern end of the Great Wall of China, the Tiger Mountain section gives tourists a glimpse into this country North Korea |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MASKED MUSICIAN $2000: Known for "Ghosts N Stuff", this Canadian DJ got some help with his distinctive "rodent" look from the Jim Henson Company Deadmau5 |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION $400: One big difference between this 1963 Pierre Boulle novel & the film version--no half-buried Statue of Liberty at the end Planet of the Apes |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river the Tigris |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This nation that was formed at the end of World War I broke in 2 in 1993 Czechoslovakia |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY $400: The story goes that Queens' College at this U.K. university has the apostrophe at the end, as it was founded by 2 monarchs Cambridge |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | STRAITS $1200: This strait at one end of the Persian Gulf carries 1/3 of the world's seaborne oil & was the scene of international tensions in 2019 the Strait of Hormuz |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PREFIXES $400: When spelled with an "E" at the end, this 4-letter prefix means "before"; with an "I" at the end, it means "opposite" ante (anti) |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $400: We can drive it home with one this; maybe in song, but not according to section 24400 of the California vehicle code one headlight |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $800: A line of players moves & stops on command in this game Red Light, Green Light |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $1200: As a verb it means trying to make someone think they're crazy gaslight |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $1600: 17th century artist Georges de la Tour was known as the "Master of" this type of illumination candlelight |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $2000: With a maximum empty weight in the U.S. of 254 pounds, this kind of aircraft isn't just light, it's... ultralight |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $800: Amid swashbuckling, Barbossa officiates Will & Elizabeth's wedding, not just offshore but "At World's End", in this movie Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $4,400 (Daily Double): Father to a Supreme Court justice, this poet wrote, "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $400: Canada's port city of Hamilton is at the western end of this very provincial lake Lake Ontario |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $1000: Around 3000 B.C. the Sumerian settlement of Uruk was the first big city in this historic region, at its southeast end Mesopotamia |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $600: This military branch had been disbanded at the end of the Revolution; pugnacious little John re-established it in 1798 the Marines |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: LiMu is an insurance-selling emu for this company that's very, very, very unafraid to repeat its name at the end of its ads Liberty Mutual |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $600: Dan Wilson of Semisonic said this song is about a baby leaving the womb as much as it is about the end of the night at a bar "Closing Time" |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $400: "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off" Alien |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $800: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $1200: Sung: "One, two, Freddy's coming for you..." Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $2000: "Excuse me, I don't mean to bother you, but are you Paul Sheldon... I just want to tell you I'm your No. 1 fan" Misery |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $5,000 (Daily Double): "I used to hate the water"--"I can't imagine why" Jaws |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | LARGE & IN CHARGE $2000: Made by the Muffin Man, Mongo is the name of a huge one of these that attacks the castle at the end of "Shrek 2" a gingerbread man |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | WHAT DOES NOT KILL US... $1000: At the end of this 1982 movie, a replicant spares Harrison Ford's character, perhaps appreciating life in any form Blade Runner |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $400: At the end of "Logan", Laura turns the cross on Wolverine's grave to make it into one of these letters an "X" |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | REPLICAS $800: A replica of this, crack & all, can be seen at an Allentown church where the original was hidden during the Revolutionary War the Liberty Bell |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $200: $2.00 a day was the price when this trailer rental company was founded at the tail end of World War II U-Haul |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $400: At the end of the book "The Maltese Falcon", this private eye realizes that Brigid is a murderer & turns her in to the police Sam Spade |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1200: "Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" remarks the title girl at the end of this work Alice in Wonderland |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $1600: The end of this novel hints at cannibalism aboard a lifeboat whose occupants were people, not a boy & zoo animals the Life of Pi |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | A NAPOLEON COMPLEX $1600: Napoleon started 2 of these structures, the big one at the end of the Champs-Élysées & another "du Carrousel" an arc (Arc de Triomphe) |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DUET PARTNERS $800: At the end of the movie "Grease", they duet on "You're The One That I Want" John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | OXYMORONS $400: At the meeting, my big idea went over like one of these water-pipe-metal inflatables a lead balloon |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | HAPPY HALLOWEEN! $1000: October brings out undead soldiers, vampires & ghosts, all serving the Headless Horseman at Philipsburg Manor in this N.Y. village Sleepy Hollow |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $200: After a decree from the federal govt., from 1891 to 1911 this Pennsylvania metropolis had no "H" at the end of its name Pittsburgh |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $400: At the end of the Pentateuch, this leader of the Israelites "whom the Lord knew face to face" died in the land of Moab Moses |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $800: Near the end of this Hemingway novel, Jake & Brett each have 3 martinis at a bar in Madrid The Sun Also Rises |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $400: This traditional 4-word phrase tells you which way to set your clocks at the start & end of daylight saving time fall behind, spring forward |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | EXERCISE YOUR... $800: In sports it's an extra year at the end of a player's contract; he can exercise it & choose to stay with his current team the option year |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $600: The Era had little political strife due to the self-destruction of this political party at the end of the War of 1812 the Federalists |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $800: Spoiler alert: at the end of this film, after surviving a break-up, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn 500 Days of Summer |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): This term for "the end of the line" was once a god celebrated at the end of the Roman year terminus |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY $1000: Held in October at the end of the week, this alliterative day celebrates Mary Shelley & her famous creation Frankenstein Friday |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHSTONE $1200: Catch some Zs (well, one) at the end of this aluminum silicate & November stone topaz |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: At its south end this 25,000-square-mile desert named for a people borders the Sonoran Desert the Mojave |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | WJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $600: On Sunday at 2 P.M. I'll feature Vivaldi when I host my weekly show "If It Ain't" this musical period Baroque |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SAND PAINTING $2000: Australian Charles Conder took a lot from Impressionism like painting his works here, French for outdoors plein-air |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | ON THE GO $600: Ride the track from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other in about 15 minutes via this, similar to the one at Disneyland a monorail |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: "Needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the...yarn through intertwined loops" crochet |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | OTHER SPORTS $400: I hereby challenge Pat Sajak to this sport where we'll attempt to stay on a spinning piece of floating wood log rolling |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PHYSICS GLOSSARY $1200: The linear type of this device increases the speed of particles as they move toward a target at the end of a tunnel an accelerator |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $800: This type of medical examination uses a very small camera on a long thin tube to look at the body's interior an endoscopy |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THE ANDES MOUNTAINS $400: At their southern end, the Andes begin in this "fiery" archipelago at the tip of South America Tierra del Fuego |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | GET YOUR KICKS $800: This 9-letter word precedes "kick" to mean a runner's heightened pace at the end of a distance race finishing |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $800: An old term for a poet, & the last name of the man who passed away in 2010 at age 92 as the Senate's oldest member Byrd & bard |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | SPORTS TALK $2000: In archery it's the 4-letter word for the groove at the rear end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring nock |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ROADS SCHOLAR $3,200 (Daily Double): At one end of Grafton Street in this European capital city is St. Stephen's Green; at the other, you'll find Trinity College Dublin |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE VIETNAM WAR $1200: Secretary of State under Nixon, he shared a Nobel Prize for his efforts at peace negotiations Kissinger |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $600: The lens you look through at the viewing end of a microscope or telescope the eyepiece |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $200: At the end of this book, Piper Kerman thanked the women of Danbury Federal Correctional Institution for changing her life Orange is the New Black |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | THE MANDELA EFFECT $800: Many swear that Queen sings "of the world" at the very end of this single--but that part comes in the middle "We Are The Champions" |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIOACTIVE $800: For some isotopes, this is just a few milliseconds, but isotope 243 of americium clocks in at 7,370 years a half-life |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE END OF THE EMPEROR $1600: He died at his military headquarters in 180 A.D., 3 years after making Commodus his co-emperor Marcus Aurelius |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | MARCH-ING IN $1600: This Mexican general prevailed at the Alamo in March of 1836 Santa Anna |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE TOOLSHED $1200: If you need to take out your frustration on sheet metal, then this hammer with a hemispherical head at one end is for you a ball peen hammer |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | TRANSPORTATION $400: With modern braking systems, this special car at the end of a train is now virtually extinct caboose |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | MAKE A SELECTION $800: The Ontario Hockey League's Soo Greyhounds made a "great" pick at No. 3 in 1977; this teen scored 182 points the next season Gretzky |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Dead just 3 months after retiring, James K. Polk was buried at Polk Place in this state capital Nashville |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) The Game Changers Exhibit honors such athletes as this track & field star whose four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin upset Hitler's dreams to demonstrate Aryan superiority Jesse Owens |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $400: You might end up in the gutter or pick up a split at this place a bowling alley |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $1000: Aw, the smallest of the foxes, this critter stands about 8 inches tall at the shoulders and weighs 3 pounds a fennec fox |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $200: Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity Israel |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: At the end of the 19th century, this man started selling his "In-a-Dor" beds (William) Murphy |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | QUOTING POETS $1600: This Dylan Thomas title is rhymed with "Though wise men at their end know dark is right" Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This Virginia Native American died in 1618, but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646 Powhatan |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): From Indo-Iranian for "place", these 4 letters at the end of a place name mean "land of" stan |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | BUGLE CALLS $200: This bugle call is played during military funerals & is also heard at the end of the day "Taps" |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1600: Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | MOUNTAIN STATES $600: Mount Lassen, at the southern end of the Cascades California |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | COLLEGE TOWNS $1,400 (Daily Double): Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake Ithaca |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $2000: Brad Pitt plays Jesse James at what turns out to be the end of his life Ford |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $800: At the end of this Shakespeare play, Orlando & Rosalind tie the knot As You Like It |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | IT TAKES A VILLAIN $800: At the end of "Avengers: Infinity War", he snaps his fingers & wipes out half the inhabitants of the universe Thanos |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $200: At 12 Mozart wrote "Bastien und Bastienne", one of these composed in German, not Italian an opera |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CHIPPENDALE $1600: Some of the finest examples of Chippendale furniture are at this London museum named for a queen & her consort the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | GIMME "5" $200: At a poker table it precedes "draw" or "stud" five-card |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | WORLD CURRENCY $400: After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged Iran |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | GET "OFF" $800: The prayers & griping of college football fans were rewarded with this at the end of the 2014 season a playoff |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $1200: A coda is a passage at the end of a work; in Italian it means this part of an animal the tail |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE LONG & THE SHORT OF BATTLE $1600: Lysander's surprise attack at Aegospotami, destroying this city-state's fleet, helped decide the Peloponnesian War Athens |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A GEM OF A TALE $800: By accident or not, Rose drops the Heart of the Ocean into the sea at the end of this movie Titanic |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PUNCTUATION $400: It marks an ending; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, even puts one at the end of her signature a period |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEERKAT MANNERS $400: A meerkat at the San Diego zoo served as an animator's model for this character in "The Lion King" Timon |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE MADDEN CROWD $800: Richard Madden's "Game of Thrones" role as Robb of this unlucky house came to a very ceremonious end at the Red Wedding House Stark |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | RISE TO THE OCCASION $800: At the end of this film, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan finally meet on the observation deck of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | YOUR TV GOVERNMENT AT WORK $800: First Lady Mellie Grant was set to only appear in 3 episodes of season 1 of this drama, but by the end of season 6, was president! Scandal |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $200: (Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp for KENS 5.) The Witte Museum's collection includes a fiddle filled with rattlesnake rattles that belonged to this frontiersman & onetime Congressman who met his end at the Alamo Davy Crockett |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $400: operabase.com says this city led the world with 632 opera performances in 2017-18, many at the Bolshoi Moscow |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $1200: Sets we're going to need for "Carrie":
the White home, the pig farm & this festive event where things get bloody at the end the prom |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | TICK...TICK...BOOM! $2000: Water pressure causes these antisubmarine weapons to explode at a preselected distance below the surface a depth charge |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a major battle in this play, the future Henry VII declares, "We will unite the white rose and the red" Richard III |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: A book by Matthew Desmond looks at some folks whose rent is 80% of their income & end up getting this, the book's title Evicted |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | MONTY PYTHON PHRASES $1600: This ditty from the end of "Life of Brian" is the most requested song at British funerals "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | DOUBLE-LETTER PLACES $800: About 20 miles south of Kampala, this city is at the end of a peninsula that juts into Lake Victoria Entebbe |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $200: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) The movie that's had the most airings on TCM, currently at 150, is this 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart Casablanca |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | "R.R." $200: In this playground game of trying to break through lines, everybody's on the winning team at the end red rover |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | TRENDING AT MERRIAM-WEBSTER $1600: This procedure to end a debate, after Mitch McConnell filed a motion to end the debate on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination cloture |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | STILL I RISE $1600: At the end of the Stravinsky ballet "Orpheus", this musical instrument rises from the hero's grave up to the heavens a lyre |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $1600: It's easy to spot this country's Kolinda Grabar Kitarović at the 2018 World Cup final--she's in her nation's colors Croatia |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | 50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 $1600: Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years ROTC |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | UNLIKELY POP CULTURE PAIRINGS $400: The film "Ragtime" has Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien & at the other end of their careers, Samuel L. Jackson & her, "The Nanny" Fran Drescher |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $200: Of course this hero returns from the dead in "Justice League"; he even has a race with the Flash at the end Superman |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | "IN" THE END $2000: This feeling of embarrassment of annoyance at one's own failure comes from the French chagrin |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This is a blank page at the beginning or end of a book, not a spot for bugs to gather on a plant a flyleaf |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | BRIDGE BURNERS $1200: At San Jacinto Sam Houston burned Vince's Bridge, making this fleeing Mexican general easy to capture Santa Anna |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship on the monitor.) At over 1,500 feet in length, the Seawise Giant measured taller than the Petronas Towers if it were placed on end, truly befitting of this type of craft, the "super" this supertanker |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | THE HUMAN BODY $200: In a book, it's supplementary material at the end; in the body, it's a small section attached to the large intestine appendix |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $800: You can shop for unis by school with this catalog & online retailer that sounds like you've arrived at the sea Lands' End |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | IN THE '90s $600: You say potato, this veep says spell it with an "E" at the end to an 12-year-old speller in 1992 Dan Quayle |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | AT THE SODA FOUNTAIN $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Franklin Fountain in Philadelphia.) Once an infant dietary supplement in the 1870s, the mix seen here contains wheat, milk & this sprouted barley; it has since crossed over to make shakes amazing malt |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH A BODY PART $1000: It sounds like you might need a shovel at this rowdy, down-home type of party a shindig |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | FRIENDS OFF THE COURT $600: Kevin Durant left OKC, yet his relationship with this Thunder super-guard is "all love at the end of the day" Russell Westbrook |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | THE END OF THE ROAD $1200: This arch is at the southeast end of Paris' Avenue de la Grande-Armee Arc de Triomphe |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | THE END OF THE ROAD $1600: On the east, London's Horse Guards Avenue ends at the embankment named for her Victoria |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | SENATORS IN THE 115th CONGRESS $800: (House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi gives the clue.) Currently the longest-serving Republican in the Senate is this man from Utah who has announced he'll step down at the end of his term, after 4 decades of service (Orrin) Hatch |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $1200: He was nearly 87 when he recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's inauguration Frost |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | FOUND IN TRANSLATION $1600: To lean or tilt to one side list (or slant) |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | HORN BLOWER $800: This long horn is heard at the end of commercials for Ricola cough drops an Alpine horn |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $400: Ship captains rely on this group; for Mardi Gras, it's spelled with a "K" at the start & an extra "E" at the end a crew/krewe |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | THE MONTH OF JULY $800: In July 1939 this man gave a farewell speech at Yankee Stadium Lou Gehrig |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1200: (At the west end of a Caribbean island)
"Civil law system strongly influenced by Napoleonic code" Haiti |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | HISTORIC LOSERS $400: At the 1862 Battle of Antietam, Lee's army was exposed, but this Union general hesitated, losing a huge opportunity McClellan |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $400: At the end of chapter 3, Emma Rouault marries & becomes the title Madame of this 1857 novel Madame Bovary |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $2000: At the end of "Jurassic Park", the island is attacked by this country's military, abolished in the 1940s Costa Rica |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $1000: Spelled with or without an "H" at the end, it's a chapter of the Koran a surah |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | VISITORS FROM SPACE $1600: An alien mother ship hovers over Devils Tower at the end of this classic film Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | I SURRENDER $1600: The B is silent at the end of this word, what you do when you die from severe injuries succumb |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $1200: 3 words:
The end of the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech free at last |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | NAMING MY BABY GIRL FOR GRANDPA $1000: If his name is this, French for "reborn", just add an extra "E" at the end René |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | GOODBYE MR. CHIP $600: Whether you spell it with a "J" or an "SH" at the end, this eggplant dip just stole my pita chip baba ghanoush |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $400: (RuPaul presents the clue.) In a twist, Nathan Lane's flamboyant character is out of drag & Gene Hackman's conservative senator is in drag at the end of this film based on "La Cage aux Folles" The Birdcage |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | PLACES TO STAY IN VEGAS $600: 'Tis true, my lord, I will lay my head at this hotel & casino that did open in 1990 Excalibur |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $800: A very funny person born at the end of January a hilarious Aquarius |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $1000: Anatomy: The lower end of this arm bone includes 2 projections called epicondyles; wait, that's not funny at all the humerus |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $1200: A subterranean chamber adds "IC" at the end to be this word meaning ambiguous cryptic |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | SPORTS TRADITIONS $200: A new tradition in 2017--at the end of the 1st quarter, Hawkeye fans at this U. turn & wave at Children's Hospital patients the University of Iowa |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | COMPLIMENTS FOR FISHING $800: 9 pounds, 12 oz.?! Well done, Brent Ehrler, who boated the biggest one at the 2017 this Master Classic bass |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | A FRENCH PREPOSITION $400: Meaning "without", this word is pronounced with an "S" sound at the end in the U.S., but not in France sans |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $200: This actress filmed her Oscar-winning role in "Cactus Flower" while she was still a cast member of "Laugh-In" Goldie Hawn |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | LAUGH-IN AT 50 $800: Edith Ann was one of the characters this comedienne performed on the show--& that's the truth Lily Tomlin |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | SAD! $1200: All the singing in the world from Ewan McGregor can't bring this actress back to life at the end of "Moulin Rouge!" Nicole Kidman |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | SAD! $2000: Lifelong friends Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey sit on the sand one last time at the end of this uber-chick flick Beaches |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PEWTER $600: The Danforth name has meant pewter for centuries; a 1795 plate set was appraised at $3,000 in Raleigh on this PBS series Antiques Roadshow |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | WINTER OLYMPICS PREVIEW $600: This all-time leader in women's skiing World Cup wins has been named an honorary ambassador at the Games Lindsey Vonn |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: This author of "My Sister's Keeper" & "Nineteen Minutes" says she writes about the things that keep her up at night Jodi Picoult |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | WHOSE ALBUM? $600: Her "Beautiful Trauma" recently debuted at No. 1 Pink |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THE SPANISH INQUISITION $600 (Daily Double): When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way burned in effigy |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD $800: This czar was known as the "Father of the Russian Navy"; the birth happened at the end of the 1600s Peter the Great |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | ROBERTS' RULES $400: Robert of Courtenay, Latin emperor of this Byzantine city, was forced to flee at the end of his life Constantinople |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | 5, 5 $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a frontiersman, it has a blade curved to a sharp point at the end a Bowie knife |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF $1000: (Robert Siegel reads the clue.) I was NPR's first journalist based overseas, sent to London in 1979 not for "All Things Considered" but to prepare for the launch of this show at the other end of the day Morning Edition |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | MOZART $2,000 (Daily Double): Count Almaviva invites everyone to a wedding banquet at the end of Act III of this comic opera The Marriage of Figaro |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | MODERN LINGO $1,000 (Daily Double): This action signals a definitive end; it followed "Obama out" at the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner mic drop |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $2000: The largest U.S. organization advocating for people's rights at the end of life is called Compassion & these choices |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | THE END IS NEAR $600: It's been 23 1/2 hours, so better look quick at the image I posted on this service, taken with a "spectacles" camera Snapchat |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Jets power propellers in this kind of plane, hence the "prop" at the end a turboprop |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | ABSURDIST LIT $400: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is part of this Douglas Adams book series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end Henry Ward Beecher |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | DITLOIDS $200: The end of an at-bat:
3 S & Y O three strikes and you're out |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | PLAN $2000: The Schlieffen Plan, named for a field marshal who died the year before, was used by Germany at the start of this war World War I |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: On January 15, 2017 Frankie Valli took the stage to say a few words at the end of this musical's 11-year run on Broadway Jersey Boys |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | VIDEO GAMES $200: Glitches in this "NFL 17" had a kick returner catching the ball at his own 2, stepping back into his own end zone & scoring a TD Madden |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | COWBOY TALK $1600: A rowel is a rotating disc with sharp points at the end of one of these spur |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | HIGH TEX. $1600: 1,000 years old & 44 feet tall, "The Big Tree" at Goose Island State Park is a "live" one of these an oak |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $400: It's the triangular section of a wall at the end of a pitched roof; your house might have 7 gables |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE AGONY OF DA FEET $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) On the X-ray you can see the small pointed bony projection at the bottom of the heel indicating the patient had one of these, which can cause discomfort when walking a spur |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $2000: His grave at Arlington National Cemetery says that he was governor of California & chief justice of the United States (Earl) Warren |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | HOUSES OF WORSHIP $400: Built on the ruins of 2 earlier churches, it lies at the eastern end of the Ile de la Cite in Paris Notre-Dame |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $1600: His tenure as poet laureate was the longest at 42 years, 1850 to 1892 Lord Tennyson |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $600: A 2016 episode of "The Simpsons" was "Simprovised" at the end as this actor took live hotline calls as Homer Simpson Dan Castellaneta |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | THE MAP OF CANADA $800: This gulf named for the Norwegian who explored the area between 1903 & 1906 is at the western end of the NW Passage the Amundsen Gulf |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | TV DINNERS $200: Glenn & Abraham somehow sit down to dinner at the end of this show's season 7 premiere The Walking Dead |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | LET THERE BE "LIGHT" $800: This phrase refers to nearing the end of a tiresome task; pessimists say it's actually "an oncoming train" the light at the end of the tunnel |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL $2000: The two capitals that have a Greek word for "city" at the end of their names Indianapolis and Annapolis |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | BACK TO SCHOOL WITH POLITICIANS $1000: In his senior year at his Columbus, Georgia high school, he was voted most intellectual Newt Gingrich |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: "The Lighthouse at the End of the World" is in this S. Amer. country near Ushuaia, one of the world's southernmost cities Argentina |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AT THE "END" $400: Money paid to a shareholder a dividend |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AT THE "END" $800: To understand, or to take into police custody apprehend |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AT THE "END" $1200: After Kanye West signed him, singer & pianist John Stephens adopted this last name Legend |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AT THE "END" $1600: The official form of address for an archbishop is "most" this reverend |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AT THE "END" $2000: To haughtily deign to do something condescend |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | STREET MUSIC $400: "Well, I found a new place to dwell, well, it's down at the end of" this street "at Heartbreak Hotel" Lonely Street |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $800: Items on drop-down menus at the website of this cereal include "Our honey", "Our oats" & "Healthy hearts" Cheerios |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | ASIAN FLAGS $800: Traditional name for the hexagram at the center of Israel's flag the Star of David |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | BOLD GOERS $400: Fridtjof Nansen was the first European to cross this land; a Danish official met him at the end in Godthaab in 1888 Greenland |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): A kids' book, "The Lonely" this convenience tells the story of one of NYC's last ones, at West End Ave. & 100th Street a phone booth |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $7,500 (Daily Double): The name of this nihilistic art style of Marcel Duchamp was picked at random from a French-German dictionary Dadaism |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $200: At Rio 2016, he blamed his glacial time of 9.81 secs. in the 100m on the short rest period between the semifinal & final (Usain) Bolt |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1992 Michael Ondaatje did a Fiennes job with this novel about a burned, unnamed man being cared for at WWII's end The English Patient |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | ANALYS"S" $400: At crime scenes experts study how blood is distributed across walls & floors, or this rather indelicate word spatter |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE CONSTITUTION $400: At the end: "Done in Convention...in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ____ ____" Eighty seven |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | A MOVIE TO DIE FOR $600: At the end of "The Dark Knight", this character played by Aaron Eckhart dies in a fall Harvey Dent |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | THE 1860s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway the Suez Canal |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: Good news! No longer need we say "shedding its leaves at the end of its growing season"--herewith a word for that deciduous |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AT THE BALLET $1200: In "Apollon Musagete", Apollo gives a gift representing poetry to Calliope & one representing dance to this Muse Terpsichore |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $2,500 (Daily Double): More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066 the Bayeux Tapestry |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | THE WEDDING RECEPTION $800: A common favor at wedding receptions, these candy-coated nuts in pastel colors Jordan almonds |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | ON YOUR SLEEVE $600: A military badge of this country recently at odds with Russia shows a trident over its blue & yellow flag Ukraine |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | SONGS ON TV $400: "Don't Stop Believin'" by this band is playin' at the end of the last episode of "The Sopranos", until suddenly, it isn't Journey |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | CIRCLE TIME $1000: This song is sung at the end of the annual Country Music Hall of Fame ceremonies... "By and by, Lord, by and by" "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE AGE OF WHALING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) At the recreated 19th century seafaring village, see how these craftsmen made casks to store whale oil at sea coopers |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $400: The number of American colonies at the time of the Revolution plus the number of states today 63 |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | MUSICAL ACTS $800: In 2016 this end-of-the-alphabet refugee from One Direction debuted at No. 1 with his first solo album Zayn Malik |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | -OLOGIES $1200: In pharmacology you learn about the risks of these, given in long & horrifying lists at the end of drug commercials side effects |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $400: As an officer who doesn't like Nazis, he gives Christoph Waltz a new look at the end of "Inglourious Basterds" (Brad) Pitt |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | U.S. MUSEUMS $800: She's in wax at the Hollywood Wax Museum & her "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" gown is at another museum nearby Marilyn Monroe |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | LITTLE RED CORVETTE $400: At the end of "Mr. Deeds", this actor buys a bunch of red Corvettes for his friends (Adam) Sandler |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | TV CHARACTERS $600: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I was going to kill off this character at the end of Season 1, but once we cast Aaron Paul, we killed that idea instead Jesse Pinkman |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | PUT IT THERE $2000: St. Stephen's Green at the end of Grafton Street:
this capital Dublin |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | ADVERBS THAT DON'T END IN -LY $2000: Bloviating speeches are full of words meaning "in addition", like "moreover" & this word with the "more" at the end furthermore |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $2000: This first of the 7 parts of "Remembrance of Things Past" had to be published at author Marcel Proust's expense Swann's Way |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | KITCHEN TERMS DEFINED $600: The name of these fatty acids means they have a double bond at the 3rd carbon atom from the end omega-3 |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE $2000: At God's urging, Adam performs this task in Genesis 2, then takes a long nap the naming of the animals |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Vince Foster was once a partner at Rose Law Firm, which claims the title of oldest in this state Arkansas |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE! $800: Captain Jack, Will Turner & Elizabeth Swann sail off the edge of the map in 2007's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At" this place World's End |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | THE COMMON "CORE" $800: It's where I write "72" at the end of 9--no, make that 18--holes of golf the scorecard |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | THE BEATLES... GEAR! $800: That crashing chord at the end of "A Day In The Life" is John, Paul, Ringo & Mal Evans on 3 of these pianos |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | INDIRECT QUOTES $1000: "(This family game) is business at the end of its journey" Monopoly |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE AZTECS $1600: The cuauhololli, with a ball at one end, was the Aztec version of this war club a mace |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | PIRATES $1200: At the end of a sword fight, Will Turner says, "You cheated"; this marauding movie character replies, "Pirate" Jack Sparrow |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | LET'S RIDE THE WHEEL! $1000: Enjoy a butler-served meal on the "Flyer" in this Asian island & city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula Singapore |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | WEAPONS IN THE BOARD GAME CLUE $200: If you're at "the end of" this, you're out of resources & options a rope |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $200: One end of Route 66 is at Grant Park on the corner of Jackson & Michigan Avenues in this city Chicago |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: At the end of WWI the 2 major unions in this industry were the ACWA & the ILGWU garment workers |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | "YES" "NO" "OR" "MAY" "BE" $1200: To get your bearings geographically; the word can also have -ate at the end orient |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $400: Syfy's take on medieval times is "Dark Relic", set in the Mideast in 1099, at the end of the first of these the Crusades |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | YOUR 5-COURSE MEAL $800: Main course! The item at the end of the French name of this chicken dish is usually a red coq au vin |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE $2000: The empire's ships sailed as far as Britain for tin from this historic county at the island's southwest tip Cornwall |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | THE NORTH PACIFIC $600: Good morning! This U.S. territory sits at the south end of the Marianas Guam |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | TREATIES $1200: Bayer lost trademarks to aspirin & heroin under the terms of this 1919 treaty the Treaty of Versailles |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | SCHWA DE VIVRE $800: There's a schwa at the end of this synonym for "couch" sofa |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | SCREAMS, SHOUTS $400: At the end of the song "Helter Skelter", this drummer screams, "I got blisters on my fingers!" Ringo Starr |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | TURN ON YOUR T-V $400: Get your drink on at one of these, another term for a bar or pub a tavern |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | PLAYING AT WOODSTOCK $800: On Sunday morning at 2 A.M., this big-voiced woman gave the crowd a shot of "Kozmic Blues" & a "Piece Of My Heart" (Janis) Joplin |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | HORSE HEALTH $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis.) Horses have been treated with acupuncture for over 2,000 years; it provides pain relief & it is used to treat other conditions by stimulating the release of these morphine-like happy-drug hormones endorphins |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: On May 7, 1954 a French outpost at this location fell to Communist Vietnamese forces Dien Bien Phu |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | BREWING BEER $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the UC Davis Malting & Brewing Science program.) These dried flowers that give beer much of its flavor come in different types; the aromatic ones are volatile & quickly steamed off, so they're added at the end of the boil hops |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AT THE "END" $800: This title for certain Christian clerics is sometimes preceded by "The" reverend |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AT THE "END" $1200: It can be an explanatory caption that accompanies an illustration legend |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AT THE "END" $2000: Surpass transcend |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AT THE "END" $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "soldier's pay", it's a fixed & regular payment, such as an allowance stipend |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | TECH COMPANY NAMES $1000: The "PE" at the end of this service around since 2003 stands for peer-to-peer Skype |
| #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 |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 3-word phrase at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons was first uttered in 1930 "That's all, folks" |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | HISTORIA $600: At the end of the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico & this Pacific island to the U.S. Guam |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: To abandon the sweet treat at the end of the meal desert dessert |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | JUST PASSING THROUGH $200: In geometry it's a straight line passing through a circle's center & meeting the circumference at each end diameter |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $2000: It's a short cluster of feathers or grass that's close together at the base & loose at the upper end a tuft |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | & THE HOLOGRAMS $1600: At a 2006 fashion show, Alexander McQueen employed a hologram of this British supermodel Kate Moss |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | SWORDS $1200: With the same name as the raised part at the front of a saddle, it's the round knob at the end of a sword's hilt pommel |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | ODE ON A $1200: Vocalists sing this Schiller poem at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy" |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: In Scrabble you get at least 12 points for this slang synonym of pimple zit |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOS $400: To raise funds for its base, part of this landmark was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 the Statue of Liberty |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) Even before you go through the front door at the Norton Simon Museum, you walk past a number of masterpieces by August Rodin, including this one, which depicts 6 townsmen who were willing to sacrifice their lives to help end the siege of their city by the English army The Burghers of Calais |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY $200: We'll start at Veracruz, drive up the coast to Tampico & end our trip by heading south to Taxco Mexico |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's a shape-shifting optical instrument with bits of glass at the end of a rotating tube a kaleidoscope |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1000: This ritual is believed to have begun at the end of a 1931 soccer game when France beat England for the very first time the exchange of jerseys |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | VICTORY $200: The Duke of Wellington's victory at this 1815 battle brought an end to the Napoleonic era Waterloo |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | THAT'S IN ROMEO AND JULIET $1200: At the end of the balcony scene, these 5 words precede & rhyme with "that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow" Parting is such sweet sorrow |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $1600: At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries Albania |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION $400: On Dec. 25, 1991 he announced, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of the USSR" Gorbachev |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | PLAY INTO FILM $400: Songs in this 2012 film that came from the Broadway musical include "At The End Of The Day" & "Javert's Suicide" Les Miserables |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $1600: His spooky 2013 effort "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" was voted National Book of the Year in England Neil Gaiman |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEAVY $600: This novelist of Yukon adventure also wrote "Martin Eden", about a novelist who kills himself at the end Jack London |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | BEFORE YOUR EYES $600: Here she is at her Senate confirmation hearing to be our top cop Loretta Lynch |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | MOVIE PUNS $2000: At the end of "Airplane", we find that the inflatable pilot who pops up to help in the cabin has this first name Otto |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | DEBUTING IN 1984 $600: One possible thing Bill Murray whispered to her at the end of "Lost in Translation" was "You were born on Nov. 22, 1984" Scarlett Johansson |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THROUGH THE YEARS $800: The first Oscars ceremony was held at the end of this decade the 1920s |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | CHARLIE $200: A small museum devoted to the history of this barrier is located at Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse the Berlin Wall |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | HE GREW UP TO BE PRESIDENT $2000: In 1924, at the age of 15, he graduated from his Texas high school, then worked as a grape picker Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | LIKE SUNDAY MORNING $200: First things first! Get breakfast going, maybe this egg dish that can have "-te" at the end, or not omelette (or omelet) |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | LIGHT THE CANDLES $800: As a verb, it means to get thinner at one end; as a noun, it's a tall candle a taper |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | ...& WHAT ARMY? $1600: This name for an army that went kaput at the end of World War II is German for "defense force" the Wehrmacht |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $800: (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) We started getting hate mail at the Hayden Planetarium in 2001, 5 years before the official reclassification of Pluto to this 2-word status dwarf planet |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Jordan &
Yemen Saudi Arabia |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows a console.) From 1947 to 2002, this control console was at the Harvard cyclotron lab for pioneering research now used to treat cancer; the surrounding healthy tissue is relatively undamaged, but the cancer cells are destroyed by irradiation with these positive particles protons |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $800: In the 1990s this group spent an amazing 51 weeks at No. 1, beginning with "End of the Road", on top for 13 weeks Boyz II Men |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | IT'S MY WAY & THE HIGHWAY $2000: Part of I-90, my tollway goes from Rockford to Chicago, like I did before I settled at Hull House (Jane) Addams |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | DRAWING A CROWD $1200: At the first soccer match at this London stadium in 1923, horses were used to control crowds estimated as high as 300,000 Wembley Stadium |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $600: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) It's called "The Last Column", and it remained in the bedrock throughout the recovery process; in May 2002, it was ceremonially removed to mark the end of 9 months of work at the site known as this Ground Zero |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | SPORTS TALK $1000: Who's there? Oh, it's this notch at the end of an archer's arrow, into which the bowstring fits the nock |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | DO IT $1600: Dial *60; follow instructions; have future dinners at home in peace & quiet block a telephone number |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | FASHION $1200: Quarrelsome or not, men used to wear these shoe coverings that buttoned at the sides & secured under the foot spats |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE $1 BILL $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the end of the 19th century, the U.S. issued a $1 bill featuring her, the only woman ever to appear on a U.S. currency note Martha Washington |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | TURTLES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits next to a big guy at the Turtle Conservancy.) Few natural predators & competitors for food, this South American giant tortoise became the largest species in the world the Galápagos tortoise |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1600: "I'm not like you. At the end of 'Casablanca' when you lost Ingrid Bergman, weren't you crushed?" Woody Allen (in Play It Again, Sam) |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | STOCK SYMBOLS $600: Kids & adults like to create their own stuffed animals at this retailer, symbol BBW Build-a-Bear |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | A CATEGORICAL DENIAL $800: To keep from occurring; football fans complain when their team plays this "defense" at the end of games prevent |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | CALIFORNIA $1000: One of the state's landmarks is Half Dome, located at the head of this valley in the same-named national park Yosemite |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $800: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $1600: At James Franco's place, Michael Cera took his partying to unexpected levels until dying a horrific death in "This" 2013 comedy This is the End |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $3,000 (Daily Double): His "Lighthouse at the End of the World" was published in Paris shortly after his death in 1905 Jules Verne |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $1200: At the end of this 1942-1943 siege, field marshal Paulus surrendered 2 German armies to the Soviets (the Battle of) Stalingrad |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $1200: In 1955 Churchill left office as PM for good at this round age that no sitting U.S. president has reached 80 |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | MLB ALL-TIME LEADERS $400: At-bats, games played, hits, Hall of Fame arguments Pete Rose |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | JEWELRY $1000: In 2010 a diamond bracelet owned by this wife of the ex-Edward VIII fetched $7 million at auction, a record for a bracelet Wallis Simpson |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The 2012 discovery of a girl's skull at this Virginia colony was the first evidence of cannibalism in the British colonies Jamestown |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | THE TV BUSINESS $800: TV advertisers' coveted age group is this 31-year span 18-49 |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $2000: Le Phare de Cordouan, France's oldest working light, lies at the mouth of the Gironde on this bay the Bay of Biscay |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | DOUBLE-LETTER ENDINGS $1000: To sing with a vibratory or quavering effect to trill |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | HERALDRY $800 (Daily Double): Battles have been used in heraldry since at least the 18th century; this admiral's coat of arms depicted the Battle of the Nile Lord Nelson |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME $1200: This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine Lorde |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | MEASURE UP $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a basketball.) Usually measured at about 9 inches, it's the 4-letter term for the distance from the end of the thumb to the end of a pinkie of a spread hand the span |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | THE HIGHWAYMEN $1600: Many a highwayman met his end at the "Tyburn tree", which was really this structure gallows (or hanging post) |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | TIME FOR A REVOLUTION! $400: Castro's Cuban revolution happened at the end of this decade the '50's |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | ON THE SQUARE $400: St. Basil's Cathedral lies at the southern end of this bricked expanse in the heart of Moscow Red Square |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE "E" STREET BAND $1000: An arm of the sea at the lower end of a river estuary |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | SECURITY $800: "Topics" at the website for this Cabinet department include "Human Trafficking" & "Immigration Enforcement" Homeland Security |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $800: Hulk feel return trip to Milan perhaps imply world rebirth at end of this island play The Tempest |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: At the eastern end of the Black Sea, this ex-Soviet country lies mostly in Asia but extends into Europe Georgia |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: At the end of a Mozart opera, this title character is dragged into the flames of hell Don Giovanni |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: At the end of this Verdi opera, Violetta dies of consumption in the arms of Alfredo La traviata |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): A long-billed game bird, or to shoot at something from a hidden position snipe |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | "ITS" AT THE END $200: Meetings of world leaders,
or tops of mountains summits |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | "ITS" AT THE END $400: Nuns' clothing habits |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | "ITS" AT THE END $600: Cave-dwelling religious recluses hermits |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | "ITS" AT THE END $800: Sports losses without playing forfeits |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | "ITS" AT THE END $1000: Cookies,
to someone in Cornwall biscuits |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | MOUNTAIN RANGES $800: Algeria's Aures Mountains are at the eastern end of this mountain system the Atlas Mountains |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | FILMED IN HAWAII $800: Some scenes for this adventure: "At World's End" were filmed on Molokai & Maui Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY $400: In 2008 "the word" was you could catch the kids of Rydell High at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in this show Grease |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | MOVIE SONGS $1600: At the end of this David Lynch film, Nicolas Cage croons "Love Me Tender" to Laura Dern Wild at Heart |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ODDS & END"Z" $200: This French preposition means "at the home of" chez |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | "S"PORTS TALK $400: Also a term for an Old West gunfight, it's a way to break a tie at the end of overtime in soccer a shootout |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | FAMOUS HOMES $2000: As of January 2014 Gracie Mansion at East End Ave. & 88th Street is this man's official residence Bill de Blasio |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1000: (I'm Chris Wallace.) The influence of the title country house on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes is at the heart of this E.M. Forster book, my favorite novel Howards End |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM $200: Idiomatically, it follows "at wit's" end |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | TIME OF THE CAVEMAN $1600: The Lascaux cave paintings show aurochs, a beast 6' at the shoulder from which these modern farm animals descend cows |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | THE CIVIL WAR IN 1864 $400: In February the first Northern prisoners arrived at Andersonville Prison in this state; more than 45,000 followed Georgia |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | VALLEY FORGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the great feats in military history was the training at Valley Forge, turning a ragtag army into a professional fighting force; the architect of the training was this Prussian who didn't even speak English von Steuben |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $1600: At the end of its life cycle, this mythical bird builds a nest of aromatic twigs that it then ignites phoenix |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | NOVEL NARRATORS $400: We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" Agatha Christie |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | THAT WORD SMARTS! $600: You can "live by your" these or "be at your" these "end", but at the least, "keep your" these "about you" wits |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | DELETE $800: ...a letter from "eaglet" to get this metal tip at the end of a shoelace aglet |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | TRIPLE H $1200: At the end of World War II, Soviet troops occupied Korea north of this parallel of north latitude the 38th parallel |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COATS & JACKETS $2000: The narrator of a 1927 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story naturally wears a coat of this fur, popular at the time raccoon |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: The undergrad school at this Northampton, Mass. college admits only women, but its grad school is coed Smith |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | A JOURNEY TO BAJA CALIFORNIA $1000: (Sarah again.) If you've ever had nopalitos at a Mexican restaurant you're actually eating the branches or pads of this alliterative type of cactus found everywhere in Baja prickly pear |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | FROM THE MALAY $100 (Daily Double): From Malay for "sheath", it's a Malay garment that's wrapped around the lower body & tucked in at the waist a sarong |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | ON THE MARQUIS $1,200 (Daily Double): Of the British surrender at Yorktown, he said, "The play is over... the fifth act has just come to an end" (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $600 (Daily Double): In 1886 a loft for this type of bird was built at Sandringham House; birds from the loft later saw service in WWII a carrier pigeon |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | REPHRASING CLICHES $800: "Illumination from one underground passage's terminus" light at the end of the tunnel |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | BESTSELLERS $3,000 (Daily Double): At age 97 in 2012, quite a few years after his bestseller "The Caine Mutiny", he came out with "The Lawgiver" Herman Wouk |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | GOING FETAL $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rubs her tummy.) At the end of the second trimester, the baby's lungs are starting to produce surfactant, a substance that allows the air sacs to inflate; at the same time, the nostrils are opening up, though the baby is still breathing this fluid the amniotic fluid |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | CARE TO DANCE? $800: Marlon Brando actually does (or attempts) this title dance at the end of a 1972 film the tango |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | MAKE ROOM FOR ROONEY $2000: This soccer star made his pro debut at 16 & was once the youngest player ever on England's national team Wayne Rooney |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PUSH & PULL $1000: In "The Story of Doctor Dolittle", it's described as the rarest animal of all, with "no tail, but a head at each end" a pushmi-pullyu |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | AT THE DRIVE-IN $1600: The 4,000 drive-ins of yesteryear are now 400; "America's biggest", the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, doubles as this kind of market flea market |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $200: This brand's Fusion Proglide is the "official shave of the NFL" Gillette |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | MOVIE TITLE ADD A LETTER $600: 2012:
At the end of a trilogy, Batman fights Bane while getting the shampoo out of his hair The Dark Knight Rinses |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | ROMANCE IN LITERATURE $2000: In a Madrid taxi, Jake & Lady Brett dream of what might have been at the end of this Hemingway tale The Sun Also Rises |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CODA $1600: You'll often hear a coda at the end of a movement in one of these classical compositions, from Italian for "to sound" a sonata |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | CODA $2000: As it comes at the other end of the song from the intro, a coda in popular music is often referred to as this an outro |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOYING WITH YOU $400: Cepia released these "Pets" in time to empty parental wallets at Christmas 2009 ZhuZhu Pets |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1797 affair French agents demanded the U.S. loan France $10 million before our diplomats could meet Talleyrand the XYZ Affair |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $600: The father of 4 young girls is revealed to be off at war at the start of this 1868-69 novel Little Women |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $1000: After his master John Thornton is murdered at the end of this novel, Buck abandons civilization to lead a wolf pack Call of the Wild |
| #6576, aired 2013-04-01 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: The term of office for the president & vice president shall end at this time on the 20th of January noon |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | & FINALLY $800: "Yours faithfully" at the end of a letter is an example of a "complimentary" one of these close |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | GET YOUR IRISH UP $400: Treasure of the leprechauns found at the end of the rainbow a pot of gold |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | OLYMPIC FACT SHEET $400: This was changed from 25 to 26.2 miles at London's 1908 Games so it would end in front of the royal family's box the marathon |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | VARIETY SLANGUAGE $1000: Like Washington Irving, Variety calls New York City this (no "city" at the end) Gotham |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $2000: "Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent" Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | COMPLETES THE BOOK TITLE $1000: Douglas Adams:
"The ____ at the End of the Universe" Restaurant |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY $400: This "coeur-de-lion" was killed at a siege in 1199 Richard the Lionhearted |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | WEB CEREALS $1000: The co. history at this cereal's .com tells of its 1945 name change--it used to end in "-oats" but lost the "at" Cheerios |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | THAT'S SOME HOTEL! $400: Enjoy a drink at Clink in Boston's Liberty Hotel, built as one of these in the 1800s a prison |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | GREENBACKS $800: A star at the end of this indicates that it's out of sequence with those on the other bills in its series the serial number |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | ANCIENT JERUSALEM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us the model of ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.) At the west end of the second temple was the section called the Holy of the Holies, entered only once a year on this holiest of days in Judaism Yom Kippur |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL $1200: Jack Torrance, frozen at the end of this Stephen King tale, is an excellent typist, but somewhat creepy The Shining |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES $400: At the north end of South America, this country borders Colombia, Guyana & Brazil Venezuela |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Type of union at the hip between bones with a round end fitting into a cup that advises the president on military matters a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | WEAK END $400: The U.K.'s Guardian said it stank when this superhero reversed Earth's rotation at the end to save Lois Lane Superman |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In an 1875 ceremony at St. Patrick's, Archbishop John McCloskey became the first in the U.S. to achieve this position Cardinal |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | LITERARY LOVERS $400: He's the "him" in Scarlett O'Hara's line at the end of "Gone with the Wind", "I'll think of some way to get him back" Rhett Butler |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | TRAVEL TEXAS $400: Say howdy to 52-foot Big Tex at the state fair of Texas, a stone's throw from this college football stadium the Cotton Bowl |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON $800: One of Johnny's trademark moves was one of these that he'd mime at the end of his monologue a golf swing |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) His account of a shot at the 2012 Masters says all he did was keep it under a tree, make it rise, then hook about 40 yards--just another example of what this man calls "Bubba Golf" Bubba Watson |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? $1000: The Battle of New Orleans, get your Wordsworth with "The White Doe of Rylstone" 1815 |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | LET'S GET TOGETHER $1600: Josh Kelley met this actress when she appeared in his video for "Only You"; she didn't wear "27 Dresses" at their wedding Katherine Heigl |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | COMMUNICATION $400: People will understand your writing better if you put this, also called a full stop, at the end of each sentence a period |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | TRAVELING THE USA $1600: Interstate Highway 10 stretches across the USA from California to this state at the other end Florida |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | THE 1870s $2,000 (Daily Double): On June 16, 1870 this was dedicated in Atlantic City; at the end of the summer season, it was taken apart & stored the Boardwalk |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE, SHAKESPEARE, FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! $400: Though the prince "hath forbid this bandying in Verona streets", Tybalt & Mercutio go at it in this drama; doesn't end well Romeo and Juliet |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | HERSHEY'S $600: The name of this assortment of caramels makes it sound like you'd find it at the end of a rainbow Pot of Gold |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $1200: At the end of a Berlioz opera inspired by Shakespeare, she & Benedict admit their love for one another Beatrice |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | U.S.A. TOUR $200: Here's a twist--at the end of the Snyder's of Hanover tour, you get 2 free bags of these pretzels |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PLAY CHARACTERS $1600: At the end of this play, Vladimir asks, "Well? Shall we go?" Estragon: "Yes, let's go." ("They do not move") Waiting for Godot |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | BEASTLY BUSINESS $1000: The Abyssinian colobus, a type of this, has a fluffy brush at the end of its long tail a monkey |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BOOK LEARNIN' $200: Usually at the end of a book, it's a list of source materials & related readings a bibliography |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Often concrete, this mass at each end of a bridge bears the weight of an arch an abutment |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WE'LL LEAVE TONIGHT $1200: In October 2006 Patti Smith presided over the last night at this iconic rock club where she began her career CBGB's |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | COWBOY TALK $1,600 (Daily Double): As a verb, it meant to shoot someone; as a noun it referred to a rectangular bar of chewing tobacco plug |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | "THE" NOVEL $600: Mitch McDeere is the newest associate at Bendini, Lambert & Locke in this Grisham thriller The Firm |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | WHAT A TOOL $400: As a noun, it's a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade; as a verb, it means to swindle chisel |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | POE'S PROSE $1200: Prince Prospero & 1,000 knights & dames retired to a castle to escape a fatal pestilence in this story "The Masque of the Red Death" |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | THE MARQUEE DE SAD $800: Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends in this weepie; at the end, they sit on the sand one last time Beaches |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | IT DIDN'T SELL AT McDONALD'S $600: This large portion led to a PR problem in the wake of a Morgan Spurlock documentary & was discontinued by the end of 2004 super size |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $2,400 (Daily Double): The city of St. Petersburg lies at the eastern end of this gulf named for a nearby country the Gulf of Finland |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HAI KARATE! $400: World Karate Federation rules require sparring competitors to do this to each other at the start & end of a bout bow |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): At the other end of life from the NICU is the GICU, short for this Geriatric Intensive Care Unit |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | BIBLE GUYS $3,000 (Daily Double): "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that" he "opened the window...which he had made" Noah |
| #6299, aired 2012-01-26 | SOUNDS LIKE A LANGUAGE $800: I have labored to learn this ancient tongue, which happens when the end of a race is too close for the naked eye photo-finish |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | MUHAMMAD ALI AT 70 $1000: For 8 years this actor insisted he wasn't up to playing Ali, but in the end Ali said, "I even thought he was me" Will Smith |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | PUNCH $200: No joke, it comes at the end of a joke a punchline |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $400: This type of card can be used to make an electronic withdrawal of funds on deposit in a bank debit |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $800: A document or object shown in court & identified as evidence an exhibit |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $1600: So you & Amy found a place together--mind if I ask, are you going to get married or just do this? cohabit |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $2000: An eye socket an orbit |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THAT "BIT" AT THE END $5,000 (Daily Double): Psychological term meaning to consciously or unconsciously restrain an impulse inhibit |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | "NEW" U.S. CITIES $400: The 33-story World Trade Center building rises at the south end of Canal Street in this city, y'all New Orleans |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | AUTHORS NOT WRITING $1200: She taught at Howard University before writing "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | ALSO A BODY PART $800: It's a collection of supplementary material at the end of a book the appendix |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | PLAYING THE PONIES $1600: Robert Shaw bets on Lucky Dan at 4-1 in this movie, but not to place--oops! The Sting |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: At its northern end, this "colorful" sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east the Red |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | "HALF" BAKED $800: This flag custom may have begun at the end of naval battles; today it's done to show respect to the recently departed flying it at half-staff |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | FINANCE WITH DAVID FABER $200: (David Faber gives the clue from the set of The Faber Report.) The large, deferred payment due at the end of a type of low-interest mortgage loan is known as this "inflatable" term balloon |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | PUT ON A SUIT $800: When a tailor puts 1 end of a tape at your pants cuff & the other where a tape doesn't usually go, he's measuring this inseam |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | JEOPORTMANTEAU $600: Additional note at the end of a letter plus revered texts postscripture |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | TAKE A DRIVE ON I-65 $1000: Won't you get hip to this timely jive / & just south of this Great Lake arrive / At the north end of I-65 Lake Michigan |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $800: & lo, the world would go dark at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, due to this alphanumeric event, & lo... it did not come to pass Y2K |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | RUSSIAN COMPOSERS $1600: In 1856, at age 12, this "Flight Of The Bumblebee" composer entered a naval academy & remained in the navy for 17 years Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | MYTHBUSTERS $800: (The Mythbusters deliver the clue.) 500 mirrors reflected the sun's rays on a ship's sail which got hot, but failed to catch fire; at President Obama's request we were testing a method invented by this ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LANDMARKS $200: This name properly refers to only the great hour bell at the northern end of London's Houses of Parliament Big Ben |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | BLUE RAYS $400: The sky is blue because blue light is most readily scattered from sunlight, being down at the short end of this the spectrum |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LANDMARKS $1000: This, the only remaining town gate of Berlin, is at the western end of the avenue Unter den Linden the Brandenburg Gate |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | KISS ME, KATE $800: In "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" she & Matthew McConaughey end up on the kiss cam at Madison Square Garden (Kate) Hudson |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | KISS ME, KATE $1200: At the end of "Temple of Doom" Indy snaps his whip around Willie (this actress) & lays a kiss on her Capshaw |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BONING UP $4,200 (Daily Double): This bone with a ball-&-socket joint at one end is about 1/4 of your height the femur |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | DESERTS $600: At the end, this character's "Wilde", degenerate life is seen in his loathsome corpse; nice picture, though Dorian Gray |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SMALL WORDS $2000: The "let" at the end of "booklet" is this type of suffix that indicates a smaller form diminutive |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | FUN WITH ELEMENTS $400: This element, No. 16 on the periodic table, has a pelt at the end of its name sulfur |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | 1923 TIME COVERS $800: At the end of 1923, this Irish author graced Time's cover & inside discussed his new play about Joan of Arc (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THEY GIVE US GAS $1,000 (Daily Double): The "Our History" section of this gas giant's site shows its path from an "Anglo-Persian oil company to global energy group" BP |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | BRITISH CUISINE $1600: Perhaps at the end of your meal, you'd like to try some caerphilly, sage derby or red Leicester this with some port cheese |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $1200: At the end of this ballet the souls of Odette & Prince Siegfried ascend high into the heavens together Swan Lake |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | AN APPLE FOR TEACHER $400: Apples are an excellent source of dietary this, which Brits spell with an "-re" at the end fiber |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $200: It's something wanted or needed that happens unexpectedly, perhaps coming from heaven a godsend |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $400: Make believe pretend |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $600: To do this to the U.S. Constitution, approval must be given by 3/4 of the state legislatures or 3/4 of state conventions amend |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $800: This title for a member of the clergy can be preceded by very, most or right reverend |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $1000: From the Latin for "things to be read", it's a table explaining symbols on a map or chart a legend |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | MALLS OF AMERICA $600: Nieman Marcus & Christian Dior are among the high-end stores at Copley Place in this city's Back Bay area Boston |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | COMPLIMENTS FOR FISHING $800: Thank you for removing from my arm this reverse-direction point at the end of the hook--are you a surgeon? a barb |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | THE END $1200: This 2-digit number signals that a newspaper story is at an end 30 |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | AT RANDOM $1600: At the end of a letter, P.S. stands for postscript; as an officer of the law, it stands for this a police sergeant |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | AUSTRIANS $600: Pre-Spago, this chef's first job in the U.S. was at La Tour in Indianapolis in 1973 (Wolfgang) Puck |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | WHAT TO WEAR? $800: A bit longer than a cocktail dress, one hemmed to end at the shins is this beverage "length" tea |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | NAUTICAL TERMS $2000: It's the triangular blade at the end of the arm of an anchor fluke |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | FRENCH HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) At one point in the Hundred Years War, England & its allies possessed about half of France; by war's end in 1453, however, the French had pushed England off the mainland, except for this port the port of Calais |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL... ERIE! $600: Part of the plan:
To put the canal's western end at this city on Lake Erie Buffalo |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | LET'S GET LOUD $1200: Heimdall, a son of this Norse god, is destined to blow his horn at the end of time to wake the gods Odin |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | U.S. GRANT $1600: In 1862 General Simon Buckner surrendered to Grant; 23 years later he provided this service at Grant's funeral a pallbearer |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | MOVIES WITH THE SAME NAME $1600: 2004: Matt Dillon;
2006: Jessica Simpson
(there are 12 a year at some businesses) Employee of the Month |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | LIVE IN TEXAS $400: Check out the I.M. Pei-designed city hall at the south end of downtown in this city, cowboy; it's i-m-pressive Dallas |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | SHE WAS IN THAT? $2000: As a toddler she appeared at the end of mom's 1949 movie "In the Good Old Summertime" Liza Minnelli |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $1200: Film in which Groucho asks, "Wouldn't it be simpler if you just put the stateroom in the trunk?" A Night at the Opera |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a sculpture.) Washington holds a wampum belt in this work honoring the Oneida who traveled 400 miles in the winter of 1777-78 to bring food to the starving men at this site Valley Forge |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | RACE-Y HUMOR $1600: This Yorba Linda-born man wanted to give debate advice but said, "My only experience is at losing them" Nixon |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $1600: This Chinese actor starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" & in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" Chow Yun Fat |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | IT'S POISONOUS $1200: This arachnid's sting is a curved organ at its tail's end; 2 glands at the base give out a poison a scorpion |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1600: In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", Davy Jones helms this ship, also the name of a Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | OTHER CIVIL WARS $800: Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism at the end of this country's Wars of Religion France |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | CHAMBER MUSIC $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.) At Toscanini's request, this composer transcribed part of his "Opus 11 Quartet", & it became his most famous work, the "Adagio for Strings" (Samuel) Barber |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | EUROPEANA $1200: In 1997 Ferrari bought this other fast car maker founded in Bologna in 1914 Maserati |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $400: This closed tube that may become inflamed is from Latin for "hanging from", as it hangs at the end of the large intestine the appendix |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | WHAT'S THE STORY? $800: Until the very end, Roxane nose not that her swordsman-poet cousin loves her Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | BOY SCOUT ACTIVITIES $400: To qualify for a bugling merit badge, a scout must know 15 calls including this one sounded at the end of the day "Taps" |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | IT'S GONNA "BE"... $800: A gin from London, named for someone at the Tower of London a Beefeater |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $200: At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark the Empire State Building |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | NOTRE DAME $800: In 2009 a memorial was held at Notre Dame for victims of this airline's Flight 447, which crashed after leaving Rio Air France |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | SUPER $2000: A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | STAGE TALK $800: Alliterative term for the return of actors to the stage in response to applause at a play's end curtain call |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | CONFUSE US $600: Spelled with "al" at the end, this word refers to a school official: with "le", it's a fundamental truth principal/principle |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JEOPA-CONGLOMAREX, INC. $1200: At the end of fiscal 2007, J-CX decided not to brew up a competition with this beverage co. which then had 15,756 stores Starbucks |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $800: Ras Mohammed National Park at the southern end of this peninsula was Egypt's first national park the Sinai Peninsula |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | OK, CORRAL ME $1200: I'm this kind of cow, & I'm eager to end up on a plate at the "genuine American steakhouse" of the same name the Black Angus |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | ELVIS LYRICS $400: "Well, since my baby left me, well I found a new place to dwell, well it's down at the end of lonely street" "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | "V" DAY $800: It can be a decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book, or a short scene taken from that book vignette |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS $2000: At the end of this man's "The Idiot", Prince Myshkin goes back to his doctor in Switzerland after failing at love Dostoyevsky |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | THE 17th CENTURY $400: At the end of the century, the British East India Company founded this city, later famous for a black hole Calcutta |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | BIBLICAL PAINTINGS $1200: One of the most popular paintings at the National Gallery of Art is this surrealist's "The Sacrament of the Last Supper" Dalí |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | FILMMAKING 101 $1600: Despite the fact that it usually rolls by quite quickly, the display of credits at the end of a movie is called this a crawl |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WORDS CONTAINING ROMAN NUMERALS $600: This word for an add-on at the start of a word ends with the Roman numeral 9 prefix |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | YOU'VE GOT BAGGAGE $600: A small trunk named for its placement at the end of a bed a footlocker |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | GARMENT PARTS $800: "All aboard" this length of material at the back of a gown a train |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1935 he bought a house at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey Einstein |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | CALLIGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.) A nonstructural embellishment at the end of a calligraphic letter is called one of these, from the Latin for "flower" flourish |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | KIDDY LIT $2,200 (Daily Double): This 9-year-old redhead is an orphan who lives in Villekulla Cottage "at the end of a little Swedish town" Pippi Longstocking |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | YOU'VE MET YOUR "MATCH" $2000: At the end of the 15th century, this type of a gun's firing device was quite the innovation the matchlock |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $400: "We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | MUSICAL A TO Z $1600: "C" is for this musical passage added at the end of a movement for a fitting conclusion or climax a coda |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | MR. & MS. ROBOTO $2000: At the end of this 1927 film, Maria & her robot twin are stalked by mobs as disaster strikes the title city Metropolis |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | NORSE $1200: Skoll & Fenrir, both this type of fierce canine, will cause mayhem at Ragnarok, the end of the cosmos wolves |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | PICK A PLANET $800: It's the third largest in our solar system Neptune (Uranus also accepted) |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FURNITURE $600: Term for a modular sofa whose segments are often placed at right angles a sectional |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | FARM AID $1600: Tomatoes sometimes come in this "old" variety, meaning they're open-pollinated & not grown widely heirloom |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | PLAY BALL $800: This bowling sport with an Italian name can be spelled with either an "E" or an "I" at the end bocce |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | MUSICAL NAME ORIGINS $1000: This "Boys Are Back In Town" band was named for a female robot in a comic strip, not from the nickname of the Model T Thin Lizzy |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ANATOMY $1000: A ringlike muscle called the pyloric sphincter lies at the end of this, leading into the duodenum the stomach |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) The festival's iconic poster lists several acts who didn't end up playing, including these heavy metal forefathers who sang "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"--they ended up stuck at an airport Iron Butterfly |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | "ITZ" AT THE END $200: A scatterbrained or eccentric person a ditz |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | "ITZ" AT THE END $400: From the German for "to spray", it's a quick spray or squirt spritz |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | "ITZ" AT THE END $600: This cracker was introduced by Nabisco in 1934 & named to conjure up an image of wealth & glamour Ritz |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | "ITZ" AT THE END $800: This 2-time Winter Olympics site has been known for its mineral springs since Roman times Saint Moritz |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | "ITZ" AT THE END $1000: Nickname of Friedrich Christian Lang, director of the classic 1927 film "Metropolis" Fritz |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $5,000 (Daily Double): Marcello fetches a doctor, but Mimi still dies, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken at the end of this opera La bohème |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | NAME THE POEM $2,990 (Daily Double): "At length did cross an albatross, through the fog it came" "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | DRAMA CLUB $1200: Laurey & Curly drive off in a surrey at the end of this "stately" musical Oklahoma! |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $1200: 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city New Orleans |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | BRIDGES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural rendering on the monitor.) During construction, you can see the free arm bridge decks, from which this type of bridge gets its name, are anchored at one end, supported by piers & meet in the middle a cantilever bridge |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | WHERE $600: It's at the north end of the Champ de Mars, just across the Seine from the Jardins du Trocadero the Eiffel Tower |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | WHERE $1,000 (Daily Double): This residence is in London, just past the Victoria Memorial at the southwest end of the mall Buckingham Palace |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | FAMOUS O'BRIENS $1000: At the end of Prohibition in 1933, Pat O'Brien converted his speakeasy to a legal bar in this city New Orleans |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $2000: Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney & Ice Cube starred in this film that takes place at the end of the 1991 Gulf War Three Kings |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $800: The aptly named Willie Thrower, the NFL's first black quarterback, played one game in 1953 for this team at Wrigley Field the Chicago Bears |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | LITERARY SHIPS $400: The Rachel is the rescue ship at the end of this Melville epic Moby-Dick |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | "WESTERN" $2000: At the end of a play by John Millington Synge, the barmaid Pegeen laments, "I've lost the only playboy of" this the Western World |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | THE SEVEN SISTERS $1200: Katharine Hepburn majored in history & philosophy at this Seven Sisters school that's just outside Philadelphia Bryn Mawr |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | FUN WITH DINOSAURS $2000: This dinosaur known for the bony plates along its back had multiple spikes at the end of its tail for protection a Stegosaurus |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | SASHA & MALIA $1200: On inaugural night, the girls had a White House scavenger hunt, & these singing brothers turned up at the end the Jonas Brothers |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | A QUANTUM OF SHOELACE $800: That plastic or metal tip at the end of your shoelace is called this an aglet |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN FRANCE $200: You can spell this port, France's second-largest city, with or without an "S" at the end Marseilles |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | "ON" THE END $1200: An example of this is seen at the end of the clue; it means "I'm upset"
:-( an emoticon |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM $2000: (Alex reads from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.) One of the first history paintings of recent events was Benjamin West's "The Death of" this general at Quebec shortly after his 1759 victory sealed Britain's control over Canada General Wolfe |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | RECENT SPACE NEWS $2000: NASA was agog at images of this planet's unique auroral features sent by Cassini in 2008 Saturn |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MUSEUMS $4,000 (Daily Double): You'll find Renoirs, Pollocks, & "Nighthawks" at the Art Institute of this city Chicago |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | AROUND A GREEK TEMPLE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.) The triangular face of the pediment has this Latin name that's also a medical term for the eardrum the tympanum |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE BUTLER DID IT $1000: At the end of this Kazuo Ishiguro novel, the butler Stevens regrets not being intimate & cultivating his own experiences The Remains of the Day |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | THE OFFICE GAMES $800: In office bowling, roll a soda can at empty cups; just like in real bowling, a perfect game is this many strikes 12 |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | AMERICAN LIT $400: At the end of his novel "Typee", the hero escapes on a whaler Melville |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | HAUNTED HOUSEKEEPING $1200: In the guest room, drown out the howling with a device for this "noise", with the same intensity at all frequencies white noise |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | PHOTO/JOURNALISM $1600: Attention-grabbing item at the end of a news story or the game being played here tag |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) In 1967, the CBC international broadcast center was used by crews from all around the world who were here to report on this World's Fair Expo '67 |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | SCI. ABBREV. $800: At the other end from UV:
IR infrared |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | FOR GEOGRAPHIC VIOLENCE $1600: In March 1954 it was 50,000 Viet Minh vs. 13,000 French soldiers at the base built around this 3-word village Dien Bien Phu |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | AROUND THE WORLD, J. PETERMAN STYLE $800: My time in Wajir was at an end, yet I could not leave this country until enjoying the wonders of Mombasa Kenya |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | PUMP IT "UP" $600: Pants with a loop at the end of each leg, or a loop on a saddle to rest your foot stirrups |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | 1450 A.M. (MAKE THAT A.D.) $600: With English defeats at Caen & Cherbourg, this long war was nearing its end by 1450 the Hundred Years' War |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | HEAVY EQUIPMENT $400: At the end of its arm, a hydraulic shovel has one of these, bigger than one a kid would take to a beach a bucket |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $800: At the end of this movie, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan meet at the top of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | FROM THE NECK UP $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) High-end cognitive thought is done at the extreme anterior of the brain in this cortex; yours is probably humming right now prefrontal cortex |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | "OO" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: Traditionally, it was red & found at the end of a freight train a caboose |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | THE CIVIL WAR: A FILM BY KEN BURNS $1200: (Ken Burns reads.) In 1859 Robert E. Lee was called upon to lead a force of Marines to end John Brown's raid on the arsenal at this site Harpers Ferry |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THE "G"-8 $400: It's a list of defined terms in a special subject at the end of a book glossary |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | FLESH-EATERS! $800: The rage virus makes it across the English Channel at the end of this 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | TRASH TALKING AT THE MEDIEVAL JOUST $2000: The lady whose favor thou sportest will sup with me ere the end of this larger event of which the joust is part a tournament |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | 1990s POP/ROCK $1000: In 1992 it was hardly the "End Of The Road" for this group, whose hit spent 13 weeks at No. 1 Boyz II Men |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $2,500 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford Linear Accelerator at Menlo Park, CA.) At one end of the accelerator, particles are fired out of a gun that uses this type of negative electrode, just like the ray on your TV set cathode |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LEARN TO COOK $200: To maximize flavor impact, this type of plant, like basil & parsley, should be added at the end of cooking an herb |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands on shore as 2 attack boats approach at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The Navy SEALs were created by this U.S. president who had been a small-unit naval commander & who knew what a small, tough force could do JFK |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $400: 2007:
"Spider-Man 3",
"Shrek the Third",
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" Spider-Man 3 |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: At the end of this Ibsen play, Nora Helmer claims her independence & walks out on her family A Doll's House |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: At the end of this Henry Fielding novel, the title character marries Squire Western's daughter Sophia Tom Jones |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BATTLES $200: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise Athens |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | APRIL 15: DAY OF DOOM $600: April 15, 1450 was a taxing day for the English army defeated at Formigny near the end of this long war the Hundred Years' War |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | LITERARY SEQUELS $400: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" was one of Douglas Adams' sequels to this novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $800: At the end of 1949's "In the Good Old Summertime", Liza Minnelli made her screen debut as this woman's daughter Judy Garland |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: How romantic: at its northeast end, the lake named for this man receives the Victoria Nile from Lake Victoria (Prince) Albert |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | "I" ON THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this Swiss town takes its name from its position between Lake Brienz in the East & Lake Thun in the West Interlaken |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | LITERATURE $400: At the end of this novel, Reverend Dimmesdale reveals publicly that he is the father of Hester Prynne's daughter The Scarlet Letter |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | THE WORLD ALMANAC'S WIDELY KNOWN AMERICANS $800: This New Haven-born casino developer is nearly at the end of the list Steve Wynn |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | THE SIGN OF THE FOUR $200: At the end of World War I, the nations designated the "Big Four" were the U.S., Italy, France & this one Great Britain |
| #5415, aired 2008-03-07 | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $1600: At the end of "Caesar and Cleopatra", Caesar promises to send Cleo a beautiful present: this man Mark Anthony |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | AN ABBREV. CATEG. $200: At the end of a letter:
P.S. postscript |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | BIOLOGY $400: Humans belong to the class Mammalia, to the order Primates & to this genus & species Homo sapiens |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION $2000: In 1805 U.S. Marines stormed the shores of this Barbary state at Derna, helping to end the raids on American ships Tripoli |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | CHICKENS FOR FREE $800: In doro wat, Ethiopian chicken stew, these go in at the end of cooking, so the chicken stew comes first the eggs |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | BOOK KNOWLEDGE $800: A colophon is a section at the end of a book that often names this, like 10-point Baskerville the font |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | LANDING AT JFK $800: This Terminal 4 company was founded in 1984 by Richard Branson; over 1 mil. people flew it by the end of the decade Virgin |
| #5377, aired 2008-01-15 | STATE FLAGS $1200: You're looking at the upper part of this state's flag; if we showed you the whole flag it would give it away Kansas |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | "B" IS FOR BARD $400: At the end of "Much Ado About Nothing", Benedick quiets this love of his with a kiss Beatrice |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WHAT THE HECK IS IT? $200: On a snail, on ommatophore is a stalk with this at the end an eye |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | WHAT A SCOOP! $800: These are the cookies in the cookies & cream ice cream at Baskin-Robbins Oreos |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $2000: (Jon speaks from the Oval Office.) On March 31, 1968, LBJ spoke from the Oval Office exactly 2 months after this North Vietnamese attack; though he said it was a failure, it changed the view of the war at home the Tet Offensive |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | NASAL PASSAGES $400: "And there in the wood a piggy-wig stood with a ring at the end of his nose" in the poem about this bird-&-feline couple The Owl and the Pussycat |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | FRENCH MENU $600: Hmm... the name of these small cream puffs tells me that the restaurant makes quite a "profit" on them profiteroles |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | ROAMIN' HOLIDAYS $1200: Head off to these 2 countries for Anzac Day to commemorate those who fought in WWI at the Dardanelles Australia & New Zealand |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THE NATIONALS $200: One of the most famous festivals in Bangladesh is Id al-Fitr, which comes at the end of this holy month Ramadan |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | TRANSFORMERS $1600: At first this city was called Byzantium, then Constantinople; in 1930, its official name became this Istanbul |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | VOCABULARY $2000: You can learn about all types of animals at the zoo--& that "zoo" is short for this type of park or garden zoological |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | NOTES TO FUTURE CONTESTANTS $600: It may have 22 chapters, but this last book of the Bible doesn't have an "S" at the end of its name, so don't add one Revelation |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE GEORGE H.W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $1600: (Jon reports again.) The Bush Library has a replica of the office at Camp David where on Feb. 1, 1992, President Bush & this Russian president pledged to end remnants of Cold War hostility Yeltsin |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | DRUMMING $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew sits at a drum set.) The ride cymbal is more for keeping time; this is the cymbal you hit when you when you want to end with a flourish crash cymbal |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | HOW TO MAKE A VEGETABLE STEW $400: Cut up this tuber that was native to South America before becoming a major crop in Europe at the end of the 17th c. a potato |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC DISTINCTIONS $1600: The heart of an ancient volcano, Crater Lake in this West Coast state is the USA's deepest at about 1,932 feet Oregon |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | BUT THEY'RE GUARANTEED TO RAISE A SMILE $2000: She wrote the "At Wit's End" column & advised, "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died" Erma Bombeck |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MAROON 5 $5,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a 1719 novel, this title character sells his Brazilian plantation, marries & visits his old island Robinson Crusoe |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Cheyenne Mountain.) Since the end of the Cold War, the only emergency closing of these 25-ton blast doors at NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain complex was on this 21st-century date September 11, 2001 |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | "C" IN SHAKESPEARE $400: At the end of "As You Like It", Rosalind says "when I make" this respectful movement, "bid me farewell" curtsy |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | "WORD" PLAY $800: A concluding section or statement at the end of a book that's separate from the main text the afterword |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches the juggler play.) To us it's a structure at the end of an animal's limb; to a juggler it's a downward movement to catch an object a claw |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | "HIT"TING $800: A recipe for these: take some young pig intestines, clean' 'em, stew 'em, batter 'em & fry 'em chitlins |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ROUTE 66 REVISITED $1600: "Well it winds from Chicago to L.A." but you're at the end of the road in this beach city on the Pacific Santa Monica |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | SPORTS GEAR $800: In billiards, it's a stick with a notched plate at one end used to support the cue a bridge |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | LET'S GET BIBLICAL $1200: At the end of Deuteronomy, the events of this man's death are recounted Moses |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | SCIENCE $1200: Ossification, the formation of this, begins in the embryo at the end of the second month bone |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | EXCELLENT ADVENTURE $200: At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'" Treasure Island |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | A LITTLE LIT $800: At first, Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth doesn't like this man's attitude, but in the end they're united Darcy |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | LETTER PERFECT $200: At the end of a card or letter, they mean hugs O's |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | THE "LAST" CATEGORY $400: My patience is at an end! You've utilized this ultimate twig last straw |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | HOWARD'S END $600: At the end of the day, you can bunk at one of this chain's more than 400 hotels in 18 countries Howard Johnson |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION $600: In 1777, after defeat at Germantown, Washington led his troops to this winter camp; had a rough stay Valley Forge |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: This capital of the Isle of Man is located at the common mouth of the Dhoo & Glass rivers, hence its name the Douglass |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | COLA $400: Sadly, the "breakfast drink", Pepsi A.M., didn't last long, even though it had 25% more of this than regular Pepsi caffeine |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | "MEA" CULPA $800: Union general in charge of the Army of the Potomac at the end of the U.S. Civil War Meade |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $400: In 1988, this FedEx rival got its own airline, now among the USA's 10 largest UPS |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | SHELLFISH $800: This mollusk is easily recognized by its fan-shaped shell that has an earlike projection at each end of the hinge a scallop |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | THE GREEN BAY PACKERS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a football in the end zone at Lambeau Field.) On this spot, Bart Starr snuck in the winning touchdown at the 1967 NFL Championship Game given this 2-word name due to the -46 degree windchill the Ice Bowl |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE "END" $1600: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lists the spotted owl & the Florida panther as this type of at-risk species endangered |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: At his death in 1931, this Jersey boy had more than a thousand patents to his name Thomas Edison |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | SPORTS $400: In NASCAR, it's the number of the turn at the end of the front straightaway one |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | LEATHER $1200: This most highly polished leather is made by applying several coats of heavy oil varnish at the end of the finishing process patent leather |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | WOLF $1600: At the end of time in Norse mythology, a giant wolf named Fenris will square off against this top god & eat him Odin |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SHEIK'S PEER $2000: With or without an "H" at the end, this is a title for a Muslim teacher; a high-ranking one may be an ayatollah mullah |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | THE INTERNET $1,200 (Daily Double): This 3-letter extension at the end of a web address indicates it's operated by a college or university .edu |
| #5062, aired 2006-09-19 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $200: "And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that" he "opened the window of the ark which he had made" Noah |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | AT THE MOZART HOUSE $1600: Eerily, Mozart's home is just one block from this cathedral, from which his funeral procession departed in 1791 St. Stephen's Cathedral |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | START ME "UP" $600: 2 lines of rhyming verse at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet a couplet |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | MARK ANTONYMS $1200: It's at the opposite end of a race from your mark finish |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | FAMILY FEUD $2,000 (Daily Double): The Trask at hand is this 1952 novel, where Caleb tells twin bro Aron the truth mom, with bad results East of Eden |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | "T" BIRDS $1200: One species of this bird breeds in the Arctic tundra & "vacations" at the other end of the globe a tern |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | TV NUMBERS $800: 714 was the number on the badge seen at the beginning & end of this show that debuted in 1951 Dragnet |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | A LA CART $1000: In a bit of optimism at the end of his "Return of the Native", newlyweds Diggory & Thomasin ride off in a dogcart Thomas Hardy |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $1200: This country star became a sitcom grandma at the end of her first season on the WB Reba McEntire |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | SWEET "P" $600: Appropriately, "Curtain" was the final mystery for this sleuth; he dies at the end of the book Hercule Poirot |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Jimmy Stewart has a broken leg when this film begins; at the end, his voyeurism gets him a second broken leg Rear Window (A Rear Window accepted) |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | BRIT LIT $1600: At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed Vanity Fair |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | PACKAGING $600: At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes box tops |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $1000: After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | VERTEBRATES $200: In the N. American species of this mammal, there are hundreds of microscopic barbs at the end of each quill the porcupine |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | BRITISH POSSESSIONS $1200: In 1999 a cannon from the HMS Bounty was raised from the wreck site at this isolated island Pitcairn Island |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | BOTANY $1600: Pollen grains are grown in this part of a flower that lies at the end of the filament the anther |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ROUGH ALTERNATE LITERARY ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kitty & Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp! Anna Karenina |
| #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 |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WWII NAMES $400: At the outbreak of the war, he was named Hitler's official successor & in fact tried to assume power at the war's end Hermann Goering |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WWII NAMES $600 (Daily Double): In 1945 he was exiled to the French Ile d'Yeu, where he died 7 years later at age 95 Pétain |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | IT'S CURTAINS FOR YOU $2000: Her short-story collection "A Curtain of Green" includes "Why I Live at the P.O." Eudora Welty |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | QUICK MOBY-DICK $200: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end the Rachel |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | MOVIE STARS GO TO WORK $1600: At the end of "Collateral", Tom Cruise says, "I do this for a living" kill people |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | BASIC TRAIN-ING $1600: The California State Railroad Museum is in this city once at the western end of the Transcontinental RR Sacramento |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | SPORTS LEGENDS $800: This catcher retired at the end of '63, managed the Yankees to a pennant in '64 & played 4 games for the Mets in '65 Yogi Berra |
| #4858, aired 2005-10-26 | SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE $800: Elinor Dashwood finally marries Edward Ferrars in an autumn wedding at the end of this Austen novel Sense and Sensibility |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | SPORTS U.S.A. $1600: In the programs of AYSO, short for this, every kid gets to play at least half of every game the American Youth Soccer Organization |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $800: Guthrie Oklahoma |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | THE GREAT & NEAR-GREAT $1,400 (Daily Double): In his effort to unite his nation, he won battles at Calatafimi & Milazzo in 1860 Garibaldi |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | A ROYAL VISIT $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Old North Church in Boston, MA.) The first reigning British monarch to visit Boston, she took part in a Sunday morning service here at Old North Church on July 11, 1976 Queen Elizabeth (II) |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ENCYCLOPEDIA: BROWN $1600: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, his raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause John Brown |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | THE ENVIRONMENT $800 (Daily Double): The sewage of half the Russians drains into the Volga--bad news for fish in this body of water at the Volga's end the Caspian Sea |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MATH SYMBOLS $1600: An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name a ray |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | A BALTIC CRUISE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Russia.) Here at the east end of the Baltic, a palace known as the Russian Versailles was built by this man who opened Russia to the West Peter the Great |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | SEEING THE LIGHT $1200: This phrase, meaning the prospect of relief after struggle, is reported as part of near-death experiences the light at the end of the tunnel |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN! $1000: Thailand to the west, Laos to the north & Vietnam to the east Cambodia |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | OH, "BOY" $1200: Viiolinist-turned-boxer Joe Bonaparte dies in a car crash at the end of this tragic Odets play Golden Boy |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CORN $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in a ripe cornfield in Wisconsin.) Because it feels like the fabric of the same name, the tuft at the end of an ear of corn is called this the silk |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | LOONEY TUNES $200: He popped out of a drum at the end of many a Looney Tune & said, "That's all, folks" Porky Pig |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | THE SHARKS $800: The head of this shark species has a lateral extension with an eye at each end the hammerhead shark |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE NAACP $2,400 (Daily Double): (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) This award, the NAACP's highest honor, was first bestowed in 1915 & named for a past chairman of the NAACP the Spingarn Medal |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | LATIN CLASS $400: -que at the end of a word means this, as in Senatus Populusque Romanus and |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | HEY, "GOOD" LOOKING! $400: Spoiler alert: The title schoolmaster of this 1934 novel dies at the end Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | ENDS IN "X" $200: A surgeon might be tempted to remove this collection of supplementary material at the end of a book appendix |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: At the end of the Bizet opera, Carmen hurls a ring at this man, who promptly stabs her Don Jose |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | WOODY ALLEN'S MANHATTAN $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Times Square, New York.) A group of celebrities gaze out on Times Square at the end of this Valentine to '40s broadcasting Radio Days |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | WHY NOT? $1000: In holding back at this city at the E. end of the Strait of Dover, Hitler may have thought he'd force peace on England Dunkirk |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | THE VILLAGE $600: An armistice to end the Korean War was signed at this village in July 1953 Panmunjom |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | OPPOSITES ATTRACT $800: An epilogue is found at the end of a book; this opposite term is a short section at the beginning of a book a prologue |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | IF SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR THE WWE $1200: Antonio! I lend you a few bucks & you end up making me change my religion?! I'll see you at "Veniceslam!" Shylock |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | "ROLL" CALL $200: This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon a rolling pin |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT... $800: Africa's lowest temperature was 11 degrees below zero in 1935 at Ifrane, just south of Fez in this country Morocco |
| #4680, aired 2004-12-31 | DR. SEUSS AT THE MULTIPLEX $1200: Ripped from today's headlines, he was a turtle king gone mad; Mack was the one good turtle who'd bring him down Yertle |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | THROWING A GOOD BOOK AT YOU $200 (Daily Double): Out of the whirlwind, God tells him to "Gird up thy loins now like a man" in Chapter 40 of his book Job |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | "Z" END $200: At an elevation of about 12,000 feet, this South American capital is the world's highest La Paz |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | YOUR HITTITE PARADE $1600: A great battle was fought at the Hittite stronghold of Kadesh against this Egyptian pharaoh, husband to Nefertari Ramses the Great |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | THE HISTORY OF DISNEYLAND $1600: Neuschwanstein Castle inspired the design of this heroine's castle in a 1959 film and at Disneyland Sleeping Beauty |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | HOW DO YOU... $1600: From bottom to top, then from bottom to top again, then into triangles starting at the end with the stripes fold an American flag |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | COUNTRIES THAT END IN "IA" $200: At 1.7 people per square kilometer, this Central Asian nation is the world's most sparsely populated country Mongolia |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | COUNTRIES THAT END IN "IA" $800: At the end of World War I, this country received the provinces of Bukovina, Banat & Transylvania from Austria-Hungary Romania |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | YOU HAD TO EXPECT SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): After being a 16th C. version of "The Terminator", the title guy buys the farm too at the end of this, Will's 1st tragedy Titus Andronicus |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | THAT'S YOUNG! $200: At age 6 in 1935 she won a special Oscar for her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment Shirley Temple |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS $4,000 (Daily Double): This capital's harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges Halifax |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Geyser Gulch, the world's largest tree house, is one of the features at Silver Dollar City in this Missouri tourist mecca Branson |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | INDUSTRY LEADERS $1600: Look down at the little tab on this on your clothing--chances are it'll bear the name YKK the zipper |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | PHARM TEAM $1600: Ulcer sufferers at the end of their ropes go to the end of the alphabet for this, aka ranitidine hydrochloride Zantac |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | "SUMMER" FUN $400: After Stockholm hosted these in 1912, Sweden's Hugo Wieslander was awarded a disputed gold in the decathlon the Summer Olympics |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | RICHARD III $600: Richard III's death at Bosworth Field is regarded by historians as the end of these dynastic wars the Wars of the Roses |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | LAST WORDS $1200: At the end of this 1960 Billy Wilder comedy, Shirley MacLaine settles down to a card game & says, "Shut up and deal!" The Apartment |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | "EPI"SODES $400: A short section at the end of a book an epilogue |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | CUSTOMS $200: Since 1910 annual Rotary Club conventions have closed with the singing of this, mostly heard at year's end "Auld Lang Syne" |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS $800: Venus took the 2000 & 2001 singles titles at this British Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | MALL OF AMERICA $1200: At Cereal Adventure, you'll go cuckoo for the Chocolate Canyon attraction named for this cereal Cocoa Puffs |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: With a "K" at the end, it's a wooden toy; without, a group of legislators who voted together block/bloc |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | TIME PERIODS $1000: AKA Y2K, this "bug" was supposed to hit at the end of 1999 the millennium bug |
| #4516, aired 2004-04-05 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $400: At the end of a Shaw play, she runs off & marries Freddy Eynsford Hill Eliza Doolittle |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS $200: This character's "Th-Th-Th-Th-That's All, Folks" is at the end of many Warner Bros. cartoons Porky Pig |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | 4-LETTER RIVERS $1600: This Russian river rises at the south end of the mountain range of the same name the Ural |
| #4510, aired 2004-03-26 | "Z" END $800: The characters from this comic strip seen here are often found at Bryson Elementary Frazz |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | NANA $1200: At the end of this "Star Trek" series Kira, played by Nana Visitor, was in charge of the station Deep Space Nine |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NOVEL ENDINGS $400: At the end of this weepy novel, Oliver Barrett IV informs his father that "Jenny's dead"; & then he cries Love Story |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | WHAT A TOOL $400: Its splayed prongs at the end of a long handle make piling up leaves a snap rake |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | THE MALL $800: This term for a trunk often kept at the end of a bed is the name of an athletic shoe store a foot locker |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | BORN IN THE 20th CENTURY $2000: Old Mrs. Kerfuffle looks good for someone born in this year in which Pres. Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | COLOR $400: Damson, a shade of purple (& a heck of a plum), refers to this Syrian cty Damascus |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THROW IT OVER HERE $800: A kiss was thrown to the audience at the end of each episode of this game show whose theme is heard here The Dating Game |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | KING ARTHUR $1200: Some stories suggest that King Arthur didn't die at the hand of Mordred but fled to this island to heal his wounds Avalon |
| #4420, aired 2003-11-21 | THE INTERNET $600: Western musician Wylie Gustafson yodels the name of this company at the end of its commercials Yahoo! |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | NOSE WEEK $400: This 6-letter word for the spout at the end of a hose is a diminutive form of "nose" nozzle |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | POINT $1600: Cape Andreas is at the pointy end of this island in the eastern Mediterranean Cyprus |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | UNPOPULAR MECHANICS $400: Heard here, it becomes really unpopular at 3 A.M. a car alarm |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | "J" WALKING $1200: In a nonsense poem Lewis Carroll warned, "Beware" of this creature, "my son" the jabberwock |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | LITERARY PLACES $400: At the end of this novel, Yorkshire folks swear that the ghosts of Heathcliff & Cathy walk the moors Wuthering Heights |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | "STREET"s $400: Elvis could have told you it's the location of "Heartbreak Hotel" down at the end of lonely street |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | PLURAL $1000: "Tooth" & this part at the other end of your body form plurals by changing their interior vowel sound feet (or foot) |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $600: Sully returns Boo to her own bed & Mike saves the factory at the end of this 2001 film Monsters, Inc. |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from a beach.) At the end of this steamy film, Kathleen Turner lounges here, on Kauai's Tunnels Beach Body Heat |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | THE TWENTIETH $200: It stipulates that the terms of Senators & Representatives shall end at noon on the third of January the 20th Amendment |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | AS THE WORLD BURNS $1,000 (Daily Double): The party's definitely over when this legendary hall is destroyed by fire at the end of "Gotterdammerung" Valhalla |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | ART $400: Joseph Stella is known for a series of paintings of this amusement park at the southern end of Long Island Coney Island |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | EAT, EAT! $1600: Eaten at Passover, charoset is a fruit & nut mix which represents this used by bricklayers mortar |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | PEOPLE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from New York City.) At one end of Rockefeller Plaza, a large granite block is inscribed with the credo of this famous son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS $1600: This foundling marries Sophia Western at the end of a 1749 Henry Fielding novel Tom Jones |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | WORD PUZZLES $400: With this insight, things are almost finished
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TUNNELLIGHT the light at the end of the tunnel |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | 1960s TV $400: The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate determined that at the end of the '60s, this variety series was TV's No. 1 show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | FOR THE BIRDS $800: This small flightless bird is the only bird with its nostrils at the end of its beak kiwi |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | WISCONSIN PLACES $2000: As its name suggests, this Wisconsin city is at the southern end of Lake Winnebago Fond du Lac |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS $800: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", this world is destroyed Earth |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | SURVIVORS $2000: Ishmael, the only survivor, is rescued by the Rachel at the end of this Herman Melville novel "Moby Dick" |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | BRAIN SURGERY FOR DUMMIES $800: Pituitary surgery may be done by going in through this, the same way patients may have to pay the surgeon through the nose |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $800: A long-awaited snow begins to fall at a ski lodge at the end of this 1954 yuletide classic White Christmas |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | MENTAL HOSPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): Here's an 18th century look at England's Bethlem Hospital, whose name was corrupted to this Bedlam |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): To "spell" this synonym for jinx, you also use an "x" at the end hex |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | WHERE ARE YOU "AT"? $600: You're out of patience, or in the position of a lassoed steer at the end of your rope/at your rope's end |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1200: The losing commander at Little Bighorn (George) Armstrong (Custer) |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | ENDLESS SUMER $400: Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body sun |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | GET INTO SHAPE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the chalkboard.) An oval that's pointed at each end is described as this nut shape almond |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | THE AMERICAN FLAG $1000: When you fold the American flag correctly at the end of the day, it should be in this shape when you're done a triangle |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | 1999 $200: In January 1999, 100 people in this job were sworn in as jurors at the president's impeachment trial U.S. senators |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | TAKE THE KIDS! $1600: Sand yachting across the dunes will thrill your kids at De Panne, 16 miles southwest of Ostend in this country Belgium |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1200: At the end of "Little Caesar", this actor cries, "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Among lesser-known body parts at the museum, see the leg Gen. Daniel Sickles lost at this July 1863 battle Gettysburg |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | PHRASES REVERSED $1600: A Capote title:
Ms. Thiessen has gone to the IHOP Tiffany's at Breakfast |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | AUNTIE UP $200: At the end of "The Wizard of Oz" Dorothy tells this aunt, "I'm so glad to be home again!" Auntie Em |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | TAKE A LETTER $600: This letter paired with "H" at the end of a word sometimes results in an "F" sound P (or) G |
| #4184, aired 2002-11-07 | THERE SHE IS $2000: A Pulitzer Prize winner, she was known for her portraits of manners & mores at the end of the 19th century Edith Wharton |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | GUITARIST'S LINGO $1600: At the end of a show, it's cool to lean your guitar on your amp & let it deafen the crowd with this noise feedback |
| #4164, aired 2002-10-10 | AUTO RACING $200: Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the end of an auto race checkered flag |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | THE END OF THE LINE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco) At the end of a cable car line, each cable is turned by a grip, which is basically this simple machine pulley |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | THE END OF THE LINE $1200: From the Latin for "to look at", it's often the final step on an assembly line inspection |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | THE END OF THE LINE $1600: At Gettysburg, this hill & its "little" neighbor were at the left end of the Union lines Round Top |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? $6,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) At the end of the deli scene, director Rob Reiner's mother has this romantic comedy's funniest line When Harry Met Sally... |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MONTY PYTHON $800: Michael Palin was one of the Knights who say" this word in "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" Ni! |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | ALONG I-80 $200: An accident at the east end of I-80 will cause rubbernecking in Teaneck in this state New Jersey |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | PROJECTILES $400: At the end of "The Dating Game", Jim Lange invited couples to throw these "projectiles" to the audience kisses |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | RELIGION $1600: Traditionally, in Judaism a ram's horn called this is blown at the end of Yom Kippur a shofar |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | BAD NEWS $600: He murdered at least 5 women in London's East End between Aug. 7 & Nov. 10, 1888 Jack the Ripper |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | DESERT PLANTS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Botanical Garden in Phoenix.) You could call these giant cacti "late bloomers." It may take 70 years for them to develop their first branch saguaro |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | ROYALTY $1,400 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Harry Connick, Jr.) In July 1991 I gave a command performance at Windsor Castle for this man's 70th birthday (Prince) Philip |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $600: At the end of this play, Octavius & Antony find Brutus' body Julius Caesar |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $1600: At about 8,000 square miles, it's the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere beginning with "E" El Salvador |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | BUTTERFLIES $200: Butterflies & moths differ in that most butterflies have knobs at the end of these; moths do not the antenna |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | SONGS FROM THE HART $800: Song that says, "I get too hungry for dinner at eight" "The Lady is a Tramp" |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | ROSES $1200: Formally presented the day this city fell to the Allies, the Peace Rose was introduced at the end of WWII Berlin |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | "A" PLUS $2000: It's not a baby eagle, it's the plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace aglet |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | STATUES $1,200 (Daily Double): A statue of these 2 fictional characters stands at the foot of Cardiff Hill in Hannibal, Missouri Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | PARDON MY FRENCH $1200: At the end of this 1759 French work a character remarks, "That is well said... but we must cultivate our garden" Candide |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | "ZOO"MERANG $1600: Peter nonchalantly remarks, "I've been to the zoo" at the start of this Edward Albee play The Zoo Story |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | MUSIC MEN $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Waldorf Astoria.) I'm playing a song by this composer on his piano at the Waldorf. "I get no kick from champagne" Cole Porter |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AT THE BALLET $600: A male drifter lusts after a garage owner's wife in "The Car Man", inspired by this composer's opera "Carmen" Bizet |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | BODIES OF WATER $700 (Daily Double): Iraq & Kuwait lie at the northern end of this gulf where a war broke out in 1991 Persian |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | A FAREWELL $400: At the end of this 1964 film, Mr. Banks says to the nanny flying off, "Goodbye...Don't stay away too long" Mary Poppins |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES $400 (Daily Double): At the present its co-princes are Jacques Chirac & Bishop Joan Marti Alanis Andorra |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | COME TO GATHER $800: (Sofia reports from the United Nations.) People from Uruguay to Ukraine have held the presidency of this body that meets here the General Assembly |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | WISDOM FROM WALDEN $1600: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at" this the roots |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | SPEECH $800: One "intonation contour" is the rising pitch at the end of a sentence that's the standard signal for this a question |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | LITERATURE $200: At the end of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this sadistic slave owner dies insane Simon Legree |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | HOW SWEET IT IS $100: You might find these boxed chocolates from Hershey's at the end of the rainbow Pot of Gold |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $400: Ernest Lawrence Thayer:
"But there is no joy in Mudville..." Mighty Casey has struck out |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $500: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) At Emily and Drake's wedding, Trent meets Brad; they hit it off & take a "fun" cruise on this Kathie Lee advertised line Carnival |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | MY PHYSICS PROFESSOR $800: Seen here, he gave me an "F" at the University of Pavia for my paper "Electricity: A Frivolous Waste of Time" Volta |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | YOU SAY POTATO $200: At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end Dan Quayle |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $400: A long siege at this military base in 1954 marked the end of French power in Indochina Dien Bien Phu |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | GOOD EATS $300: At Thanksgiving, many families enjoy a side dish of these veggies baked with marshmallows & brown sugar sweet potatoes |
| #3843, aired 2001-04-25 | SIT ON IT! $200: At the Jackie Kennedy Onassis auction in 1996, one of these chairs used by JFK sold for $442,500 a rocking chair |
| #3843, aired 2001-04-25 | BEVERLY SILLS $500 (Daily Double): At age 17, Sills made her operatic debut as the gypsy Frasquita in this opera Carmen |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | PSYCHO BABBLE $200: At the end of the film, Norman thinks "They'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm'" this insect Fly |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | "LE" CATEGORIE $1000: At the end of the 1970s, AMC marketed this Renault model Le Car |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE END $800: Hit by a stray bullet, Paul Baumer dies at the end of this Erich Maria Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | THE END $1000: This captain & his ship disappear into a maelstrom at the end of a Jules Verne tale Captain Nemo |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS $100: Porky popped out of this type of drum at the end of many a Looney Tune Bass drum |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | NORTH KOREA $200: North Korea came into political being following the division of the Korean peninsula at the end of this war World War II |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | MYTHING PERSONS $1,000 (Daily Double): The priestesses who served this Roman goddess of the hearth took a 30-year vow of chastity Vesta |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | QUOTATIONS $500: "All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end" is a line from this 1726 work Gulliver's Travels |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | MAMMALS $200: "Here Comes" this common species of rabbit named for the fluffy white fur found at one end cottontail |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): William Cody's 2-word nickname, or perhaps what he sent out to his clients at the end of each month "Buffalo Bill" |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | HISTORY FROM HOLLYWOOD $100: At the end of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Admiral Yamamoto realizes this sneak attack may have been a big mistake Pearl Harbor |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | ARCHIPELAGOS $1000: This atoll at the southern end of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean is the site of a U.S. naval base Diego Garcia |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | AVIATION $600: The B-17 was the Flying this, the B-29 the Super this, & the B-52 the Strato this Fortress |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | STARS IN MUSIC VIDEOS $100: Rebecca Gayheart plays one of these in Train's "Meet Virginia", but turns in her order pad at the end of the song Waitress |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | COMMON BONDS $600: Period,
caboose,
Z things at the end |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | YEARS $500: Atlanta hosts the Olympics 1996 |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | A HORATIO ALGAE NOVEL $800: These algae, which share their name with a type of eagle, are at the riches end of the rags to riches story Golden algae |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | "G" MEN $400: At the end of his 1633 trial he is said to have muttered with regard to the Earth, "Even so, it does move" Galileo |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Wim Wenders directed this acclaimed 1999 film about legendary Cuban musicians The Buena Vista Social Club |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | MINERALS $200: Talc is at one end of the Mohs scale of hardness & this is at the other Diamonds |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | AT TIFFANY'S $600: The original store was called Tiffany & Young, & it wasn't on 5th Avenue but on this theatrical street Broadway |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Louise is just a little stripling at the beginning of this musical, but by the end, she's a burlesque queen Gypsy |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | LITERATURE $100: This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line Madeline |
| #3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE BULL $200: At 1999's end, this internet bookseller had seen its stock rise 6,000% without showing a profit Amazon.com |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | A PROVERBIAL MESS $400: At try don't you if again first try succeed At first if you don't succeed, try, try again |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | AROUND D.C. $400: Valley girls may pout, but this strip with the Lincoln Memorial at one end is lined with trees, not stores the Mall |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | BELLS $500: At sea the bells ring every half hour, & 8 bells signals the end of one of these shifts Watch |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $1000: Look closely: some of the brides chasing Chris O'Donnell at the end of this film are male extras in drag The Bachelor |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $400: It lies on a plain at the south end of Attica, a peninsula that extends into the Aegean Sea Athens |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | HAVE AN AMSTERDAM GOOD TIME $400: You get 2 free glasses of beer at the end of the tour of this company at Stadhouderskade 78 Heineken |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | CASABLANCA $500: That crucial flight at the end of the film is bound for this city Lisbon |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $400: He turned the experience of being booed at Madison Square Garden into the hit "Garden Party" Ricky Nelson |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | BEING PUNCTUAL $500: If 1 of these takes 3 paragraphs, the marks go at the start of each paragraph & at the end of only the third Quotation |
| #3514, aired 1999-12-09 | SAY YOUR PRAYERS $400: At the end of his life, this man prayed for the strength to avenge himself on the Philistines Samson |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $500: Now at Elmira College, this author's study was made to look like a Mississippi riverboat's pilothouse Mark Twain |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $500: An aglet is found at the end of this item that holds your sneaker together Shoelace |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | ACTS $300: The vote is 12 not guilties at the end of Act III in this Reginald Rose work "12 Angry Men" |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | ACTS $400: Abigail & Betty hysterically name other villagers as witches at the end of Act I in this 1953 hit "The Crucible" |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | WORLD MYTH $400: Utu, the Sumerian god of this celestial body, judges the dead in the underworld at the end of the day the Sun |
| #3459, aired 1999-09-23 | WAY BACK WHEN $700 (Daily Double): This Greek biographer's own "life" included being granted a priesthood at Delphi for life Plutarch |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | LAKES & RIVERS $600 (Daily Double): This lake on the French-Swiss border shares its name with the Swiss city at its southern end Lake Geneva |
| #3445, aired 1999-07-23 | THE FARMER IN THE DELL $200: At the end of the song, it "stands alone" The cheese |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $800: Sisters Marianne & Elinor Dashwood get married at the end of this novel by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | IT GROWS ON TREES $200: This type of orange is so named because it has a small secondary fruit growing at the end navel orange |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE RIGHT GENES $600: Cher & this bass player of Kiss dated in the '70s & performed at the Super Bowl in 1999 (but not together) Gene Simmons |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: Id Al-Fitr is a day of feasting that ends the fast at the end of this Islamic holy month Ramadan |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | THE JACKSON FIVE $600: He closed nearly 5 decades of sportscasting at the end of January 1999's Fiesta Bowl Keith Jackson |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | LITERARY TOURISM $200: William Faulkner once lived at 624 Pirates Alley in this Louisiana city; it's now a bookstore that sells his works New Orleans |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | CHARMED, I'M SURE $500: Since Robert Rubin took over the Treasury Department, he's been addressed as Mr. this Mr. Secretary |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA $400: L.A. visitors flock to the carousel on this famous pier at the end of Colorado Blvd. Santa Monica Pier |
| #3393, aired 1999-05-12 | PARDON MY "FRENCH" $1000: They're formed by folding back & fastening a wide band at the end of a sleeve French cuffs |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | LET'S GO SHOPPING! $1000: Located at 333 Canal Street, Canal Place is one of the most beautiful shopping centers in this Southern city New Orleans |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $200: Some scholars date the end of the Middle Ages to this king's death at Bosworth Field in 1485 Richard III |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ENGLISH "T" $300: This square is located at the north end of Whitehall, not on the southwest coast of Spain Trafalgar Square |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $1000: Valhalla & all its gods are consumed in flames at the end of this opera, so don't expect a sequel Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | ON THE PRAIRIE $400: A pioneer wagon with a sail-like top, or a literary magazine at the University of Nebraska Schooner |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | I SWEAR $200: George Washington added these 4 words at the end of the presidential oath of office "So help me God" |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | FLOWERS $200: This special flower for March lies at one end of the spectrum, so to speak Violet |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $400: At the end, this German philosopher remarked "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" Karl Marx |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | I GOT IT HANDLED $300: It's the star found at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper North Star |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | JEOPARDY! 101 $300: Of $183,000, $283,000 or $383,000, it's closest to the highest amount you can win in one regular game $283,000 |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | UNESCO $1,000 (Daily Double): In March 1998 UNESCO took offense at the atrocities of the Taliban in this country Afghanistan |
| #3309, aired 1999-01-14 | ALAS, MORE SHAKESPEARE! $400: Cleopatra says of this animal, "Dost thou not see my baby at my breast that sucks the nurse asleep?" snake |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | HISTORIC NEBRASKA $100: Thousands receive care every year at this institution for homeless, neglected & abused children founded in 1917 Father Flanagan's Boys Town/Home |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | 1997 $400: At least 62 wagons reenacted this religious group's 1847 trek from Illinois to Nebraska to Utah Mormons |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | THE 3 TENORS $100: The boys first teamed up in 1990 for a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in this city Rome |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | COMMUNICATION $800: A classic model of communication refers to the person at the end stage as this, like part of a phone Receiver |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | BLACK & WHITE CLASSICS $1,100 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Janet Leigh.) In "Psycho", it's the name of the establishment where I met my end the Bates Motel |
| #3304, aired 1999-01-07 | WE'RE IN-SEINE $800: The Seine flows into the English Channel at this seaport whose name means "The Haven" Le Havre |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | POUR ME SOME CHAMPAGNE! $600: The songwriter who wrote, "I get no kick from champagne, mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all" Cole Porter |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $500: It's what Oliver Goldsmith's woman does "to conquer" stoops |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | LET'S DEMONSTRATE $500: In March 1988 students at this U.S. university demonstrated in favor of hiring a deaf president Gallaudet |
| #3293, aired 1998-12-23 | AT HOME IN EUROPE $1000: In the 1890s while studying law, he lived with an Anglo-Indian family at 20 Baron's Court Road, London Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: At the end of "Crime And Punishment", he is serving an 8-year term for murdering an old woman Raskolnikov |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | FAIRIES & WEE FOLK $400: Of all Shakespeare's plays, this one has the most fairies A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | TREATIES $100: Of the 5 treaties signed at the end of World War I, this one was signed with Germany the Treaty of Versailles |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | THE FREEDOM TRAIL $500: At the end of the Freedom Trail a granite monument on Breed's Hill marks the site of this important battle Bunker Hill |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | COLLEGE MEMORIES $100: It's the one-word name for the exams you take at the end of school terms Finals |
| #3266, aired 1998-11-16 | 10-LETTER COUNTRIES $1000: From the early 1500s to 1975 this country on Africa's southeast coast was at least partly occupied by Portugal Mozambique |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | SPORTS SUPERSTARS $300: In 1997 this 16-year-old Swiss miss became the youngest in the 20th century to win at Wimbledon Martina Hingis |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $200: The punishment at the end of the novel "Crime And Punishment" is servitude in this cold region Siberia |
| #3253, aired 1998-10-28 | SWEDE TALK $400: In 1792 King Gustav III was shot at this type of ball; he thought he wouldn't be recognized a masquerade |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | "DAY"S OF WRATH $200: Start praying now; it's the day at the end of the world when God settles accounts Judgment Day |
| #3232, aired 1998-09-29 | CBS TV AT 50 $400: In May 1998 the character Rob Petrie was digitally inserted into an episode of this Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | WHAT'S THAT BIRD DOING? $1000: Also called the fish hawk, it hovers over water & dives to seize its prey Osprey |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | THE WOMAN AT THE MIKE $800: In "Blazing Saddles", Madeline Kahn as Lili Vonshtupp parodied this legendary German Marlene Dietrich |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | AFRICAN ATHLETES $800: South African runner whose encounter with Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympic 3,000 meters made headlines Zola Budd |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | 20th CENTURY INVENTION $200: Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle a clothes dryer |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | SAY WHAT? $1000: A Khoikhoi would pronounce "Jeopardy!" with one of these at the end, as their language requires Click (for the exclamation mark) |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | HISTORIC EUROPEANS $300: Many historians consider his death at Bosworth Field to be the end of the Wars of the Roses Richard III |
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Rich Rosenlof, a sales representative from Sacramento, California
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Season 18 3-time champion: $80,800 + $2,000. Alex erroneously reported Rich's...
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Susan Blum, an attorney from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 1-time champion: $18,000. At the end of her first...
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Craig Savel, a data processor from Flushing, New York
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Season 10 1-time champion: $10,401. As the champion in show #2109,...
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Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jesse Matheny, a customer success specialist originally from Huntington, Indiana
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2024 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 39 1-time champion: $2,600...
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Jaldhar Vyas, a software developer and Hindu priest from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 28 player (2012-01-04). Last name pronounced like "VYAS" (in 1...
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Robert Wargo, a student from Fairfield, Connecticut
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Season 2 player (1986-05-29). Robert appeared on seven episodes of Connecticut...
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Chris Mullins, a computer programmer from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 21 player (2005-01-04). Chris's wife, Scheri Mullins, an administrative assistant...
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Czerni Brasuell, a writer originally from New York City, New York
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Season 2 player (1985-09-23). Subsequent to her appearance, Czerni spelled her...
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Mikel Borg, a firefighter from Austin, Texas
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Season 3 player (1987-06-15). First name pronounced like \"MIKE-ul\". Mikel clearly...
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Zhe Lu, a software engineer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 38 player (2022-04-12). Husband of Season 17 1-time champion Kara...
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Ted Cooperstein, a lawyer originally from Potomac, Maryland
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Season 4 4-time champion: $32,500. Ted won $10,801 in his first...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
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"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
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"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Jonathan Dinerstein, a composer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 35 4-time champion: $93,301 + $1,000. Jonathan shared a $600,000...
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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
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"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a consultant from San Mateo, California
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"She represented Stanford University when she won the 2001 College Tourney....
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Carolyn Cracraft, a college senior from Chicago, Illinois
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2000 Tournament...
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